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.

MJ Speaks Out

MJ is a private person. Actually, private is an understatement. She’s very, very averse to people knowing her business. She doesn’t have a website, her name doesn’t pop up on Google and that’s the way she likes it. Well, I guess I should say she was like that up until we got together. Because, as [...] [...]

July 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 73 comments - (Comments are closed)

Abort Protesters

I do not respect any person who stands outside a clinic and harasses women when they are at their most vulnerable and frightened. This is a perfectly legal medical procedure. It’s unfortunate, but necessary. And furthermore, none of these religious nutjobs have the right to control what another woman does with her body. And because they lack that power, they turn into bullies who pick on the weak and try to guilt them in despicable fashion. [...]

July 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 284 comments - (Comments are closed)

Flying Solo

For the past three weeks MJ and I have been living a nightmare. But the key word in the sentence is “we.”  We’ve gotten the news together, we’ve both been in the room for ultrasounds and we talk to the doctors as a team. We lean on each other and we support one another. Together. [...] [...]

July 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)

All Out of Miracles

It was going to be a comeback story for the ages. Seriously. Even though we had seen ultrasound after ultrasound of the baby’s legs together and not moving, this time was going to be different. MJ warned me not to be optimistic because she didn’t want to see me crushed. But her resignation and morbid [...] [...]

July 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 51 comments - (Comments are closed)

What If?

Turns out I may have been prematurely optimistic in writing my last post about getting past the threat of a miscarriage and being able to enjoy this pregnancy. Less than 24 hours after I wrote about how happy I was, everything came crashing down all at once. First of all, Will got kicked out of [...] [...]

June 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
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