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.

It’s the Adults Who Need Coaching

I know you’ve all heard about the Texas Pee Wee football brawl between angry coaches and parents. If you haven’t seen the video, check it out below. OK. I know every newspaper columnist and blogger has condemned this incident and the coaches/parents involved. But as usual dear readers, I’m here to offer you a different [...] [...]

October 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Will Is Officially a Star

My newspaper has a daily podcast called “CapeCast” that focuses on the lighter and quirkier stuff going on on the Cape. From time to time, reporters get called on to help out. Will and I volunteered today to try a peanut butter & jelly omelet courtesy of The Gourmet Brunch in Hyannis. So if you [...] [...]

May 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Some Sobering News

As some of you know, MJ has been sick for a while now. I’ve tried to downplay it here because she wants to put on a brave face, but I just have to vent because it’s really affecting me now. For more than a month now she’s just been sick as hell. She feels nauseous, [...] [...]

May 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)