About Me

Babble.com's Top 50 Dad Blogs of 2011!I'm a 32-year-old father and husband born and bred in Massachusetts. I have a beautiful son named Will, a gorgeous wife named MJ who is far too hot to have married me, a dog I love and two cats I put up with. I'm a smart-ass former newspaper reporter with a penchant for turning a phrase, who decided to go corporate and is now enjoying life as a content manager for a website.

This blog is not just another "daddy blog." Sure I write about my son, but these pages are a record of my life. I don't just highlight the fun milestones like first steps, I also chronicle the "other stuff." The fights, the torment and the doubt that inevitably come with being a husband and father. It's not always puppy dogs and rainbows, but it is very real. And often there is beauty in the sadness, redemption in the struggle.

Thank you for checking me out, giving me a try and sticking around for the journey. If you'd like to contact me you can email aaron_gouveia (at) yahoo (dot) com.

Vacation Picture Post

I have an entire post planned regarding vacation before and after kids, but to be honest I’m too tired. I’ll get to it in a couple of days, I promise.

Vacation was fun and I’m sad it’s over. Except in some ways I’m not. It’s a lot of work to take a 14-month-old to a new place and break a routine. But I’m glad we did because it was a BEAUTIFUL house and the area was so gorgeous. I’m a sucker for the mountains, hiking, streams, and the outdoors in general so this was perfect. And the heated, in-ground pool helped too. There aren’t any pictures of the house or of me, MJ and our friends because…well, we were taking care of babies during the day and at night we had a few alcoholic beverages so no one was manning the camera.

But here are some parts of our mini vacation:

This is the view looking down the road from our house.

This doesn’t do it justice, I swear…

Finding the treasure during our geocache adventure in the Pondicherry Wildlife Refuge

My two favorite people

Dipping Will’s toe in the Pemigewasset River in Franconia Notch

It was a great (albeit exhausting) time and thank you so much to my friend Alex who made it all possible. Now it’s back to the grind stone and trying to catch up on the ridiculous number of posts in my Google Reader. You guys have been busy!

4 comments to Vacation Picture Post

  • It seems that mountains make everything better! I always forget how hard it is on kids to break routine (until I do it), so I feel your pain.

    (I just found your site on dad-blogs, I like it… you’ve found another subscriber :) )

  • JEE

    Benedryl….natures babysitter. I’m just sayin.

  • theoldguy

    JEE -

    You are a parent after my own heart! :)

  • Mistaken Identity

    Wow, absolutely breathtaking. Those images will forever be indulled into your brain. Remember to look them up on cold dreary nasty weather days! You three make a goregeous family, you truly compliment each other bringing a picture of happiness.