A frog in the bog field

I love the summer time.  I love that nothing has to be done in a hurry.  I love that we don't usually have the next day planned out to a "T" (even though my friends would beg to differ).  I love that we get to do spur of the moment things more often.  I usually love that Todd gets to play softball two nights a week, but I truly love that every now and then we get to catch up with good friends while he plays.  Tonight was one of those nights.  Our sweet friends, the Mericles, are due with baby #4 any minute now... actually, to be fair, she was due about 8 or 9 days ago, but in true Mericle fashion, she is going to 42 weeks it looks like - again, for the fourth time.  Bless her heart.  She is truly the most radiant pregnant woman I've ever known, even at 41+ weeks, so I guess it's good that it is her that carries all of her children to 42 weeks until the doctor posts the eviction notice... a nice IV of pitocin.
Anyway, I had pretty much accepted the fact that they would not be at softball games this summer.  I mean, who in their right mind wants to bring a 7 year old, a 5 year old, a 2 year old and an infant into the sweltering heat of the summer.  Thankfully last night, they did!  It was such a treat to get to catch up, and it makes me realize that we don't do a great job of trying to catch up more often.  Their oldest, the 7 year old, is usually the ring leader of the group and last night was pretty much the same... she found a tiny frog.  This frog proved to be entertainment for this group of 5 kids for the entire softball game.  At one point, us moms noticed that the frog was no longer trying to jump out of the kids hands... it just sat there, like it had accepted its fate.  Or maybe it had been paralyzed and couldn't jump out of their hands anymore.  Either way, the kids had a blast chasing this poor little frog all over the IBM fields and the moms got to enjoy an entire hour of catching up!  We were so sidetracked that we didn't even notice the game had ended until we saw our husbands walking almost back to the parking lot!