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.

Men Need Friends Too

There is an interesting debate going on at the Good Men Project about whether dads-to-be should be allowed a bachelor party level night of fun with the guys before his baby is born. But in thinking about it, I believe we all missed a deeper issue. A lot changes when you have a kid. Many [...] [...]

June 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 31 comments

A Step Back In Time

The third Monday of every April is Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts, commemorating the first battles of the Revolutionary War fought at Lexington and Concord. It is also known as Marathon Monday, when the Boston Marathon runners finish in Kenmore Square while the Red Sox play an 11 a.m. game. But most notably, it’s a day [...] [...]

April 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments

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)

Bar Babies

The funny bastards over at Dadwagon created quite a stir recently when one of them copped to being a drunk, shitty parent being a dad who does not shy away from occasionally heading out to a bar with his baby in tow in a recent CNN article. It received more than 2,700 comments and seemed [...] [...]

March 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)

It Takes a Village to Go on Vacation

I have a bunch of pictures to post of the wedding and the reception, which is good because I don’t really remember the end of the reception. It was a very fun time, the bride and groom looked fantastic and their friends are a friggin riot. Let’s just say after 7 hours of open bar, [...] [...]

March 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)