Happy Birthday, Jed!

My First Born Child!

with his beautiful wife, Becky

I am again linking with Susan's Tablescape Thursday at http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/.

But before I go to that, let me greet my handsome son a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I don't even want to think about how old he is now because it makes me feel old but I miss him very much. Shown in the pictures below are my 3 children. It is so nice to see them so close to each other. Jed is the oldest but is the only one who has not given me a grandchild and would want very much to, but God said it just isn't time yet. For the meantime, he enjoys playing and running around with his niece, AJ and nephews, Brendan and Nathan.

Jed is a Gator, he graduated from the University of Florida. My mom had a stroke in the Philippines when he was in College. I took him with me to visit her. You see, he was the first baby she ever took care of so she got really attached to him. I had to give her lessons on how to put on a diaper at first, lol. She had lived in maids when we were little so she never took care of us.

Anyway, when we saw her in the hospital, she couldn't recognize anybody but she really perked up when she saw Jed. That's when I made my decision to leave him there for a while, actually 6 months. He learned how to speak 2 Filipino dialects during that time and he started singing Filipino songs, lol. My aunts and cousins were all asking me how did I raise him because they all said he is such a nice, sweet and polite boy. Anyway, I knew his presence was essential for my mom's recovery and I still believe it was a good decision even if it delayed him from graduating for a few months because my mom recovered, and at 92, she is still with us today.

Jed manages Pizza Hut very well but he would rather go fishing. They have a business selling specially made fishing rods. He caught a 150 lb. sailfish once in Cozumel. Unfortunately, he had to throw it back into the Caribbean waters cause he could not take it home.

Happy birthday boy! I love you very much!!! Hope you enjoy your day and birthday presents! Did you get mine?

October is my other favorite month aside from April because it was on this month that I ever held my very own baby for the first time and the month I had my first grandchild. So for today, I am creating a fall tablescape.

This is for you, Jed! When I used to live in Florida, for Thanksgiving, I would just order a complete turkey meal from Boston Market but I would set the table really nice. Jed would comment that "Mom is the only one I know of that could make Boston Market food look good on the table". LOL!

I decided to use my brown and white polka dotted placemats and as I was carrying them from where I store my linens, I passed by the family room and saw the knitted shawl a friend gave me for Christmas 2 years ago, draped on the leather ottoman and thought, hmmm, I can use that! And so on the table it draped.

Jed and his wife, gave me this set of orange flatware one Christmas. Thanks boy and Becky!

I used different shapes of dinnerware in the same shade.

Orange, green, golds and browns, I love all those fall colors.

I like the teeth of the pumpkin tealight candle holder spelling EEK. I took it home from my store. See, I shop from my store too, lol.

Here is a close up.

Amber, almost orange, goblets and green wine stems look great on the table.

This is before I added the plate charger.

With the plate charger. Which look do you like better?

I love the plates. I got them from TJ Maxx about a month ago and I finally got to use them. I bought them to sell but I could not part with them, lol.

Thanks Susan, for allowing us to play with our dishes and tables again. And thank you all for your visit.

Happy birthday again, son! I hope you have a wonderful day. I am so sorry I will miss it but I will see you next month and we can celebrate again. I hope you enjoy the balcony upgrade I gave you and dinner on the cruise is on us, lol! I love you!