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.

Tough Questions

And somewhere in the middle of this tempest of misery and heartache I’m stuck in traffic either on my way to or from work. I can’t move. All I see are brake lights. I’m hemmed in while my son grows up without his beloved pets, without his friends and with a father he sees for an hour a day. The roof over his head isn’t even one I’ve provided. If I’m not providing enough financially and I’m not providing enough emotionally and I can’t give him the things he wants and needs…well, then what exactly am I doing? [...]

September 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 11 comments

Embrace the Unknown

MJ is a great cook. She makes some truly wonderful dishes—call them “signature meals” if you will—that I love. Her go-to dinners include a scrumptious chicken portabella mushroom casserole, mean stuffed calzones and homemade mac & cheese that truly epitomizes what comfort food is all about. But despite her repertoire of culinary masterpieces, I don’t [...] [...]

May 4th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments

The Problem with Many Moms

I’m partially stealing this from my very talented friend and colleague Sarah Shemkus who keeps this blog over at the Cape Cod Times Web site. Sarah points out her Top 10 Worst Commercials of 2009, and does so in very snarky, wonderful fashion. But the ad I want to hit on is this one from [...] [...]

December 31st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed

Cheerios & Airplanes

The bad news around here is coming with the same regularity as the morning newspaper. The condo association is coming after us for not being able to pay the special assessment. They’ve issued another special assessment for maintenance due in January. Our credit card that we use for emergencies was canceled WHILE we were fixing [...] [...]

November 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Key to Economic Recovery Is In My Pants

QUICK SITE UPDATE: I know this is a pain, but if you have Daddy Files saved as a Bookmark, RSS feed or Google Reader you’re going to have to tweak things slightly. It’s now http://daddyfiles.com which will lead you straight to the site. We’ve eliminated that first page you used to see when you originally [...] [...]

May 27th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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