Stop over at www.beagooddad.com and tell him Happy Birthday. He thinks he is 32 today, but he is really 33; he lost track of a year somewhere.

The first birthday I knew BAGD, it was new and awkward, so I couldn’t get him a real birthday gift. So, I got him a Shamrock Shake from McDonalds. He loved it, seriously.

This year, I did not get him a present. I am chipping in with the rest of the family for some “not quite a laptop” nerd command station that he wants. I don’t really know what it is, except that it will rock his world and if we all give him Amazon gift cards, he can get it.

But, I wanted to get him something special too. So, I made him his favorite thing when we ate at his parent’s the other night.

It doesn’t really have a name. He calls it “that huge nacho thing.” I have never made it more than once a year. I usually make it on College Bowl Day. Its just a big pile of nacho toppings, arranged in a pleasing manner, until the first person drags their chip through it, then its a mess.

But, once again. He was in heaven.

After we ate nachos, there was ice cream and cupcakes.

Then he collected his gift cards and we sat around watching Pookie and Geetle do “science speriments” with bowls of water and whatever spices they could convince Mamaw to get out of the spice cabinet.

I think he had a good birthday. I hope he did. He’s the best and I would add a layer of Shamrock Shake to the nacho pile, if it made him happy.