Today’s photo of the day is brought to you by Chippy, Cheese Curls and Boy Bawang. As the girls and I treck up the bedroom to start winding down for the day, I felt an urge for some chichiria. So I raided our cabinet and found that it’s been newly stocked. Awesome!

Chippy, Cheese Curls and Boy Bawang, oh my!

We woke up today excited for X’s swimming class. There was no class last week, and we missed the week before that (When I came back from San Francisco). When we got there, we learn that the class was cancelled because a meet was scheduled. Bummer, we were looking forward to some swimming time.

At lunch, we packed everyone up to attend a birthday party at the Jump Zone. XYZ enjoyed themselves and had fun! Had a couple of photos but especially loved this one of Z. He’s a bit mesmerized by this funny mirror and he kept on looking at himself on it. One time, I caught him doing this!

I'm so cute!

And I don’t blame him. I kiss him everytime I see him too. He’s just soooo cute :)

Got home late with no photos taken. Which is weird, because I have my camera and I had lots of interesting photos to take at work, but for some reason – I can’t find the time to take those photos. So, at home in the bedroom with the girls, I again have to find something. Tonight, it’s mangoes. This is not a very good shot, but I want to talk about mangoes :)

Mangoes

These are not the popular Philippine mangoes. These are what’s closer to what’s called indian mangoes in the Philippines, but I think is really closer to Mexican mangoes here. The batch we got from the grocery this week was really good. Sweet and crunchy. And when we get them that way, EVERYONE wants one. These are normally for me, but I can’t eat one with X and Y wanting their share. If Z is still awake, he wants some too and when hubby is home, he steals some himself. The funny thing is no one else asks for them! They just want to eat them when they see me eating them. Isn’t that weird?

Been trying to get an inspiration for today’s photo all night. A colleague gave me a good idea of taking a photo of the Pizza oven after we had after work drinks at the Italian place but I wanted to get moving and be at the train station. So, now I’m in one of those nights where I am stuck trying to find inspiration inside the bedroom.

Tonight’s subject came from my end table lamp shade. I’ve actually seen this in the past and remembered tonight that I’ve been looking for a web to take pictures of. This one under one of the lamp shades looked interesting. What do you think?

Spider Web

I liked this one because of the detail on the web. It’s not silky and perfect, but feels like one of those halloween fake ones. LOL.

I know Valentines day is over – but everywhere around the house, we continue to have reminders and everyday, X eats something from her Valentines treat bag from school. I was having a conversation in the office, and a colleague mentioned that he found the phrase “Tweet me” in one of these sweetheart candies.

So, curious – I grabbed X’s box of candies and started going thru each one to find “Tweet me” for the photo of the day. I found “XOXOXO”, but unfortunately didn’t find “Tweet me”. I did find something that said “weet _e” but it wasn’t printed clearly and could have been “Sweet Pea” for all I know!

"Tweet me", where are you?

If you find “Tweet me” or something equally modern, reply and share! :)

Totally out of topic, X tells me: “Mommy, XOXOXO kisses!”. Where did she get that?!

I love long weekends, and today is the first day back from the long weekend. The problem with long weekends is that you get swamped on your first day back. And such is my day today.

It was also my birthday yesterday, and today, my team mates are treating me out to lunch. Got a photo of the whole team at the table (well, our server did), but I am not using that as photo of the day. Instead, I am using a boring photo of one of our rooms in the office.

"Splash"y Lounge

This room used to be a closet used by our IT to store spare keyboards, cables, etc. It’s a utility room. But then, the company started growing and room became sparse that the closet became a “war” room. We actually was just using this as a war room for one of our projects before a bigger one opened up and we moved there. Then, facilities came over, painted the room and this is the next incarnation of the room. It is now referred to as the Lounge and is a good place for an informal conversations and meetings. Don’t know that anyone actually has time to watch TV or play the Wii though. Hee.

The downside? It’s right beside the men’s rest room. “Splash” indeed :)

Yes, it IS my birthday today, and it is also President’s day, which just so happens to be a non-working holiday for my company. Yay! Hubby was off, I was off, and the kids are not scheduled to go to school on Monday so today was one of those rare days where we are all together for the whole day. w00t!

It was uneventful day. We brought Y and Z to the dermatologist for checkup and consultation. I tried to not read e-mail :), push off work until tomorrow, and sleep as much as I can in preparation for the busy week. In the evening, hubby had a reservation for us at the Morton Steakhouse in Schaumburg to celebrate both Valentines day and my birthday.

Dinner @ Morton Steakhouse

This photo was taken on the way home, as I was in the car. Snow was falling and I we were at a stop light when I looked back and saw the Morton sign and liked how it was framed amidst the melting snow flakes.