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I'm a 33-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.

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When Will It End?

Less than three months ago we were betrayed by our daycare provider, who shouted (in front of the other daycare kids) that my son was awful. If you want to catch up, here’s the post but needless to say it was a terrible time and we needed to find Will a daycare provider stat. The [...] [...]

September 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)

Breaking Bad

At the moment, I’m obsessed with the TV show Breaking Bad. In a nutshell, it’s about a regular guy named Walter White who finds himself in an extraordinary situation.  He’s 50 with a wife and 16-year-old son who has cerebral palsy, and his 40-year-old wife is pregnant. He’s a brilliant chemist who did groundbreaking research [...] [...]

September 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)

Autumnal Orgy

Fall is by far my favorite season. First of all, autumn brings what I call “Fat Guy Weather.” The infernal summer heat finally subsides which means the sweat underneath my man boobs finally disappears. Not to mention I get to break out my fine collection of sweaters. And because we’re in New England, it means [...] [...]

September 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Crashing Down

Right now — right at 7:24 a.m. on Sept. 8, 2010 — I don’t want to have another child. To be totally honest, I don’t even want the one I have. Will has been extra infuriating lately. But worse than that, his onslaught of awful behavior has coincided with the complete departure of my patience. [...] [...]

September 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 42 comments - (Comments are closed)

Hurricane Madness

Anyone who has ever been through a hurricane knows that it’s craziness for days leading up to the big event. Hurricane Earl currently has Cape Cod in its crosshairs and the impending pandemonium of this peninsula’s populace is perturbing indeed. Not to mention the barometric pressure is causing severe alliteration as well. People mob gas [...] [...]

September 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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