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I'm a 33-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.

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You’re Growns Up & You’re Growns Up

It seems my son is all grown up. You see that wretched looking brown thing at the top of the picture? That’s Monkey. He’s been with Will since Day 1. There isn’t a night that goes by when Will and Monkey aren’t together. He cuddles Monkey, he chews on Monkey, he kisses Monkey. And now, [...] [...]

May 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed

Two Shits In a Bucket

When the Patriots won their first Super Bowl in 2002, I was ecstatic. When the Red Sox broke an 86 year drought in 2004 to take home the World Series title, I was over the moon. And the Celtics victory over the evil Lakers in 2008 truly had me dancing in the streets. Yet none [...] [...]

April 25th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)

“Poop, Poop, Poop!”

I’ve done some crazy things in my life. Bizarre things. But none of them compare to the nutty shit I find myself saying and doing now that I’m a parent. For one reason or another, I think the wackiest behavior parents display emerges during the potty training process. Probably because parents are so sick of [...] [...]

February 10th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Crossing Streams, Golden Showers

As any parent will tell you, potty training is almost always a work in progress. Will is pretty good about it, although he’s not fully there yet. He doesn’t crap in the toilet. Never has and it feels like he never will. The silver lining is he doesn’t like pooping in his underwear, so when [...] [...]

December 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)

What Is Your Major Malfunction?

Didn’t think I could draw a parallel between sports and potty training? Well here it comes… In the 2004 AFC divisional playoffs, the Patriots played the Colts and no one thought there was any way the Pats defense could stop the high-octane passing attack of Peyton Manning. All week long leading up to the game [...] [...]

September 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
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