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.

Evil Yankees

Kids are very impressionable. That’s why as parents, it is imperative we take great care and responsibility in shaping these young minds. With that, here’s a conversation I had recently with my 3-year-old son while listening to sports radio hosts discuss the upcoming series between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. Will: “Dada, [...] [...]

April 7th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Beat By a Girl

A few weeks ago we were able to meet up with some friends we haven’t seen in a while. My buddy Lozo from college, his wife and their daughter Madison. Maddy is 13 days younger than Will, so whenever we have a chance to get together and let our kids play, we do it. But [...] [...]

March 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Red Sox, World Series, 2004…The Long-Lost Video

OK, I’m officially a little bitch. Seriously, it’s so damn lonely in this house without Will and MJ. They’re coming home tomorrow and not a minute too soon. I had the whole day off and was pretty productive. I cleaned, I went to the store, I picked up around the house. I even volunteered to [...] [...]

April 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

Opening Day

***The Red Sox home opener has been canceled and moved to tomorrow, but I’m posting this anyways*** “Either you were born into the Red Sox, you were swept up by them or you inherited them the same way people inherit baldness and high blood pressure. Inevitably, you passed them down to the next generation. You [...] [...]

April 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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