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 Trip to the ER

***NOTE TO READERS: We’re having problems with the comments so I apologize to the people who have tried to leave them and had trouble. My crack team of experts (aka my awesome brother Nate) is working on it so bear with us.*** Will has been sick for nearly a month now. It started with vomiting [...] [...]

March 24th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)

I Hate to Say ‘I Told You So’ But…

I was trying to finish up a story yesterday when I got a call from MJ, who sounded a bit frantic. She told me my mom was bringing Will down to the pediatrician’s office. Alarmed, I asked what had happened. This is the answer I received: “He hasn’t been eating and he’s been really whiny. [...] [...]

July 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)