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.

A Peek Behind the Curtain

It was MJ’s birthday yesterday, so on Saturday night she took a well deserved night for herself. She went out with two of her friends to this fantastic restaurant called the Brazilian Grill. They serve Churrasco a Rodizio which means Rotisserie Barbecue, and basically that translates into an endless supply of every kind of mouth-watering [...] [...]

April 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)

Will 2.0

Two years ago, if you asked me to describe myself, I would’ve said I was a husband. That I was a writer. A loyal friend. Not to mention a really, really, ridiculously good looking militant Boston sports fan. With the exception of the Derek Zoolander quote, I’m still all those things. But on April 3, [...] [...]

April 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)

Monday Morning Musings

From time to time I like to empty my brain of all the little odds and ends floating around in there. Separately they don’t constitute a post, but together…well, it’s probably still not a great post but they can’t all be winners you know. Here’s what’s been kicking around in my head lately: –> I [...] [...]

March 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

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Well it’s official…I am no longer in my 20s. First of all, MJ’s mystery behavior was for a reason. A surprise party. She planned the whole thing out in advance and even enlisted the help of my work friends to get me the day off, have someone cover my Saturday shift, etc. I went to [...] [...]

August 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)

Will’s 1st B-Day Party

Before I post some pics of Will’s first birthday, I just want to say a few things. We are so, so lucky to have the family and friends we have. To my parents who babysit, help us financially and in every other way to my best friend Craig and his wife Kelly who bought and [...] [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
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