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.

New Year’s Lost

I made New Year’s Eve plans all the way back in May. I envisioned a truly special night. I had a little room booked for me and the wife. Nothing fancy and we weren’t going to travel far, just a few towns over to Hyannis. Some of our friends would’ve come with us but there [...] [...]

December 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)

John Wayne & Lots of Trains

It is never too late to begin a family Christmas tradition. My grandmother died this year so this Christmas was a little tough because it was the first one without her. But when she was alive, we liked to tease her mercilessly about her John Wayne obsession. She adored the man and had all of [...] [...]

December 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

O’ Christmas Shrub

We had a real Christmas tree in 2005, our first year in the condo. Since then? Nada. Four years ago we weren’t married. We had no dogs and plenty of space. Both of us grew up with real Christmas trees and it was of the utmost importance. We decorated the tree with lights, we hung [...] [...]

December 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Little Things

Check out Dad-Blogs. Or I will hunt you down. I’m not an overly positive person. So even though it’s Thanksgiving time and every blogger on Earth is making lists of all the wonderful things in their lives, I just can’t bring myself to go along with the herd. So I’m compromising. The following are things [...] [...]

November 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)