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Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation Promotional Video

Thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive!

Dear Mattie Blog Readers,

It means a great deal to us that you take the time to write to us and to share your thoughts, feelings, and reflections on Mattie's battle and death. Your messages are very meaningful to us and help support us through very challenging times. To you we are forever grateful. As my readers know, I promised to write the blog for a year after Mattie's death, which would mean that I could technically stop writing on September 9, 2010. However, at the moment, I feel like our journey with grief still needs to be processed and fortunately I have a willing support network still committed to reading. Therefore, the blog continues on. If I should find the need to stop writing, I assure you I will give you advanced notice. In the mean time, thank you for reading, thank you for having the courage to share this journey with us, and most importantly thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive.


As Mattie would say, Ooga Booga (meaning, I LOVE YOU)! Vicki and Peter



The Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation celebrates its 7th anniversary!

The Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation was created in the honor of Mattie.

We are a 501(c)(3) Public Charity. We are dedicated to increasing childhood cancer awareness, education, advocacy, research and psychosocial support services to children, their families and medical personnel. Children and their families will be supported throughout the cancer treatment journey, to ensure access to quality psychosocial and mental health care, and to enable children to cope with cancer so they can lead happy and productive lives. Please visit the website at: www.mattiemiracle.com and take some time to explore the site.

We have only gotten this far because of people like yourself, who have supported us through thick and thin. So thank you for your continued support and caring, and remember:

.... Let's Make the Miracle Happen and Stomp Out Childhood Cancer!

A Remembrance Video of Mattie

April 29, 2011

Friday, April 29, 2011

Friday, April 29, 2011

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2007 on our deck. We were all eating outside together, and clearly Peter wanted to capture this happy moment. I am thankful we took so many pictures, not just on special occasions. Because in reality, the pictures are all we have left to help keep Mattie's memory alive.


Quote of the day: Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow. ~  John Wayne




Today's posting will be short because I am not feeling well. The update on Peter is he has finished his work in Bangladesh and will be boarding a plane shortly to head to Qatar (a 5 and half hour flight), and once in Qatar will taking another 5 hour flight to get to his final destination, Kenya. Peter will be in Kenya for a week. His trip to Bangladesh was a positive cultural experience. On his last day of work, he received all sorts of gifts and kindness. Frankly, as I observe how developing nations do business, it seems to me that we have lost a very important factor in our American work culture. The human factor!

As I picked up the Washington Post this morning and saw the picture of devastation in Alabama on the front cover, I immediately went to the computer to email my friend and colleague, Lisa, who lives in Tuscaloosa. Thankfully she is okay, but is surrounded by devastation. It is hard to believe that as one area suffers, the media is focused on a royal wedding in another part of the world. I am the first person to appreciate tradition, but based on my own feelings today, there was no way I was tuning into this wedding. Despite not tuning into the wedding, it was all over TV and the radio. You couldn't avoid it. Many of the comments I was hearing had to do with how the wedding was making others feel.... romantic, sentimental, energized. What a commentary that we need the media to hype up a wedding in order for us to feel these emotions within ourselves.  

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