[blparent] Blending Families, any advice?

[Deborah Kent Stein]

Dear Gabe,

Congratulations to you and Katie!  This is wonderful news, and I'm glad the 
listserv has played such a special role in your lives.  Best wishes to both 
of you!

Debbie



-----Original Message----- 
From: Gabe Vega
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:07 AM
To: nfb blind parent blindparent
Subject: [blparent] Blending Families, any advice?

Good Morning All:

For a wile Katie and I would at times write back and forth, resulting in us 
agreeing or at times not agreeing by a long shot.  At one point Katie and I 
disagreed so badly I completely  wrote her offas a winy self-entitled blindy 
and wanted nothing to do with that sort of person both on or off this list. 
but oh how that was going to change. :-)

There was a point on this list where I explained that I was a mac computer 
trainer/consultant and Katie wrote me off list for a little bit of help. so 
I invited her to call me and I would see if I could answer any of her 
questions.

We began to talk through e-mail and then moved on to the phone.  Recently we 
met in person and things went so well we are now engaged.

If it hadn't been for this list I would of never met such an amazing woman. 
I will be forever thankful to this list for giving me a blind professional 
focused woman employed in the blindness rehabilitation field, who is caring, 
loving to me, and the strong independent woman I want by my side.  This 
would not of happened with out my joining this list and now I am eager for 
tips on how Katie and I can blend our families.

You see, Katie's two children  will be relocating to be with me and my 3 
children.  My oldest daughter, age 11 is still dealing with the abandonment 
of her mother (going on about 3 years now) since about September 2009 and 
though is open to having a relationship with Katie, I am interested in what 
I should expect my child to go through as her and Katie learn about each 
other and begin to interact as a child and step parent.  I am confident 
things will be Ok between my Daughter and Katie's older child Ashly, though 
some what to expect when children get use to being step siblings would be 
helpful.

I want to thank the NFB blind parents list for opening a door for a single 
Blind Father to meat such an amazing Single Blind Mother.  This would of 
never happened if Katie and I never joined this list,.

Again, Thank you.
Gabe Vega  and Katie McEachern




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