To decompartmentalization!

Found a new great place yesterday evening in downtown Littleton.  I am hoping it can become our place.  I have always wanted to have a place.  It is called Jake's Brew Bar and is in an old downtown building with high ceilings with a nice throw back feel; a cool place that isn't trying hard to be cool.  This was one on the nicest evenings we have had in a while and we just stumbled into it.  Perrin and I were walking downtown just to get out of the house and stretch our legs.  Joseph called and said he had left work a bit early and could be at the train station to meet us downtown in 30min.  So we met him and thought we would try out this new place on Main Street.  We walked there and since it was a bar I started to think maybe we shouldn't take Perrin in and bother other patrons with possible baby issues.

So we got to the doorway and peeked in.  We saw another small baby and a toddler, so we had our ticket in.  We sat down and ordered a couple of beers and started talking to the woman with the toddler who was beside us.  The little boy was on the floor playing with toys and the woman invited Perrin to sit down with him to play. 

So there we are, drinking happy hour beers at 5:30 on a friday evening, with our daughter playing happily at our feet, talking to really friendly servers and other patrons.  One server held Perrin, took her to look in the mirror, then to go visit with the baby at another table.  How great was this!?  They brought us beer and took care of our child!  A random fact was that our server also turned out to have been on the show Survivor for two seasons (we were informed by another patron)...ah, random brush with celebrity.  Aaaany way... 

What I enjoyed so much about this experience was that I didn't just feel like we were having parent time, or just baby time.  We all three got to hang out together where we all got to have a good time and no one was sacrificing anything...P got to play and be social and so did we.  Usually our lives as parents tend to feel like oil and water with parent time and grown up time.  It was incredibly refreshing to feel whole.  Gotta figure out more ways to do that.

Perrin moment of zen..."Are YOU looking at ME?"