HELP!!!

Benny gets a 3 day weekend. WOOHOO! I love that his job works 4 days a week/10 hours a day instead of the normal 5/8's. So I get him for 3 days all to myself with the two little ones of course.

Except we wont have the two little ones Saturday night! My folks have agreed to let us have a date night every month and Saturday is the day!

There is one slight problem though and where I could use a little of your help. We are broke. Funny how bills and food and gas can do that to ya. Ok, not funny but life. So, we got about $20 to use for our date night so it's time to get creative. That's where you come in to play. What are some good things we could do on $20 without kids?

Thinking the movies because I don't think we have EVER gone to the movies without a kid. I already had Little Man when we got together so we always took him. Actually, the first couple of years we were together we (Benny and I) never even went to the movies together at all. It always worked out where either he took Little Man or I did but we never all 3 went. I don't know why. I don't even know what we would go see. Guess I need to see what's playing.

So, what else would be a great idea on limited funds. I know I have some creative readers so let the ideas poor in!!!

Also, gotta tell you about a funny conversation I had with Benny.
First, I gotta tell ya that my brain sometimes thinks really random stuff that has nothing to do with what we are talking about. The smallest thing can get my brain going in a totally different direction.
Anyway, we were sitting in bed watching football (I think) the other day and a commercial for Private Practice came on. That got us talking about how pretty Kate Walsh is. He asked if they still showed the Cadillac commercial that she was on. I told him I didn't think so but that you can look it up on youtube. While we were having this conversation I was digging in my purse for something and ran across Toots blue ribbon from her rodeo debut. So out of no where I said "You need to nail her......cork board back together so I can hang her stuff up". I paused because of something on TV and when I finished the sentence I looked at him and he looks SOOOOO surprised and confused.

Benny: "WHAT?!"
Now I am confused.
Me: "The corner came unnailed and I need you to fix it."
Him: (now even more confused) "WHAT?!"
Me: "Toots cork board. You need to fix it."
Him: "OHHHHH, I just thought you told me I needed to nail Kate Walsh!"
Then we just both cracked up and I told him if he ever had the opportunity to be my guest.

I guess the pause in my sentence threw him off and I was confused because in my head, I had totally switched subject and didn't think of how it would sound. He is usually really good at keeping up with me. Maybe he just heard what he wanted to hear!!!

Decisions, decisions!

We have a few decisions around here to make and we (actually I) are having a hard time in making them.
There are really only 2 that are up in the air. Benny knows what he wants (rather what he thinks we need) but I am on the fence. Actually, one of them I am totally against and am just trying to figure out how to convince him.

First thing. Benny wants to sell the camper so he can buy a motorcycle. He doesn't want a motorcycle for play (that would just be a plus), he wants it to drive back and forth to work. His office is 70 miles from the house and that takes a lot of gas in his truck and my pathfinder. If he had a bike, we would save TONS on gas money. And, since we live in Texas, he could drive it most of the year.
My problem is, I love having the camper AND I know that next spring he will need it when he has to go back to Louisiana to work that shut down. See my problem. I don't know what we should do. Seems like an easy decision to make, but it's not for me.

Second thing. He thinks I need to go back to work. He has decided with a motorcycle and me working part time, we could do good. The thing is, he usually works 2 shut downs a year and makes a ton of money. The last shut down I didn't save any because we bought a camper, a boat, and horses. Now during the summer, he only works 40 hours and that has always been doable to pay our bills but now we have more bills AND we just got medical insurance that cost $500 a month (that covers med, dental, and vision).
Also, Toot will be going everyday to pre-school which is twice as much as we paid last year and Smiley will be going two times a week which is a payment we didn't have last year. Now, he is not sure if he will even work a shut down this fall because they need him in the office so much. That right there is a major cut in his annual income.
My problem is, I don't think me working part time would even be worth my time. That would mean I have to put Smiley in school everyday and double his tuition. We had a plan that I would go back to work when Smiley started kindergarten and I like that plan. I am not ready to be a working mom. I want to still stay home with my babies. The only thing I got going for me is that NO ONE is hiring around these parts and I would be very picky about my hours. Only 8am - noon and no weekends. I refuse to work more than that. I will be the one picking up my babies from school (they get out at noon).

We have to do something because what we are doing now isn't working out so well. I need to get us on a strict budget, save our asses off during shut downs, and maybe still sell the camper. I don't know. Such hard decisions. What do yall think?

Little update

OK, I cheated and wrote the last post yesterday for today.

Since then, I have come down with a major kidney infection, Smiley cut his foot REAL bad right on the arch of his foot, and a pipe busted and flooded half my house. I can barely walk, Smiley can't walk, and half my house is covered in water. UUUGGGGHHHHHH! I need help! :(

So yes, this week officially SUCKS!!!!

HELP!!

Two updates at bottom.

Smiley locked me in my room (the stupid people who put in the door put it in backwards) and he is running around doing God knows what. I can't get out!! Everyone else is gone and I'm stuck!

I hope my Mom is close by so she can come save me. If not, I'm screwed! Anyone know how to pick this lock? Now he's crying for me to open the door. I CAN'T!! and he can't unlock it.

UPDATE:
I finally got it unlocked. I found an old insurance card and it did the trick.
Now, my door looks like this:

That wont be happening again.

Tattooed Minivan Mom said I should write a post on how to talk to a 2 year old threw a locked door. Here is how it went. (Luckily there are windows on the door.)

Smiley: MOMMA! OPEN THE DOOR!
Me: Sweety, unlock it.
Smiley: OPEN THE DOOR!
Me: Turn the button!
Smiley: Kinda tries while screaming. OPEN THE DOOR!
Me: I can't! Turn the button the other way. As I am trying to show him while he screams.
Smiley: Pees in floor because he thought it would be a good idea to do all this naked. OPEN THE DOOR!

After I get it open.

Smiley: Thank you Momma. I went pee pee.
Me: Your welcome and thanks for the mess. I didn't have enough going on already.
Smiley: Your welcome Momma.

Second update:

I'm not the only one (thank God), go read Buried with Children's post about it. At least I wasn't locked out in the cold. And I laughed because it wasn't me, so I forgive everyone that laughed at me.