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.

What Is Your Major Malfunction?

Didn’t think I could draw a parallel between sports and potty training? Well here it comes… In the 2004 AFC divisional playoffs, the Patriots played the Colts and no one thought there was any way the Pats defense could stop the high-octane passing attack of Peyton Manning. All week long leading up to the game [...] [...]

September 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)

No Lingering

“Dada, please don’t leave me!” That’s what Will was saying over and over again this morning as he began his first full day at his new daycare center/preschool. Tears streaming down his face, the sentence coming in sharp, punctuated bursts because he couldn’t catch his breath in between his miserable sobs. It was heart-breaking. I’m [...] [...]

September 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

Hanging On Too Tight?

“When are you gonna get rid of this thing?” MJ was on the computer when she growled the previous sentence at me. I had no idea what she was talking about, but I assumed it was something of little consequence or just a mild annoyance that was eating at her. But when she turned the [...] [...]

September 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)

Felissa

“Aaron, I don’t know what to do. Felissa’s dead.” That’s the news I got from my friend John — exactly 10 years ago to the day — late at night on a nearly deserted North Adams street corner. I had just started my senior  year at college, and having turned 21 the previous month I [...] [...]

September 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

Nature’s Call

“Why is it so great for guys to pee outside?” This question, recently posed to me by my wife, caught me off guard. What’s so great about peeing outside? Is she kidding?? The real question is what’s bad about peeing outside? I just looked at her as if she had just asked why oxygen is [...] [...]

September 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
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