Update: Our kid is with relatives for the week...What's the gameplan?

We had a semi-successful week, although not as cheap as I had hoped.

"First, we want to paint the master bedroom."  Yes, complete. Although we spent a little more than expected because we used the fancier paint store for its color matching service.  In our experience, the home improvement chains just don't do a good job of that.  So we ended up with pricier $40 zero VOC paint (to satisfy my environmentally-conscious side) but we only had to do one coat.  So, now that I think about it, rather than do two coats and buy two gallons of lower quality paint, we saved ourselves some time and only had to do one coat and buy one gallon of good paint.  So the paint cost, in my opinion, was worth it to save some time and hassle.

Our kid is with relatives for the week...What's the gameplan?

My folks are on vacation this week, and living a couple hours away they don't get to see as much of our son as they would like.  I agreed (actually, I jumped) on their offer to keep him for the week.  It will allow me to catch up on some work projects and housework, plus have some quality time with Hubby now that we're both busy with work and school.  I want to definitely have some fun, maybe a cheap date night (complete with a bottle of wine--woohoo!), and also get some projects done that are challenging with a 3 year old around.  I also don't want to go too spend crazy this week trying to complete those projects, since I hadn't really factored anything into our budget at the beginning of the month and we just replaced our car windshield last week.