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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

May 29, 2011

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2008. A month before Mattie was diagnosed with cancer. As you can see, Charlotte was hugging Mattie. Mattie described Charlotte as his "girlfriend." On that particular day, Ellen (Charlotte's mom) and I took the kids on a boat which was pulled by mules on the C & O canal in Georgetown. The kids enjoyed going through the water locks and spending time with each other. It is simply hard to believe that a month later we would hear that Mattie had cancer when he looks so happy and healthy here. 

Quote of the day: In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life. ~ Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks' quote caught my attention. Not only because I have read each of his books, but because in so many ways, Mattie and I shared this special kind of bond and relationship. Though he was a child and I am an adult, we were there for each other and we supported each other in our own ways. Mattie's death is a loss of great magnitude. I lost my son, a huge part of myself, and now am forced to live a future that has no definition or understanding. I, for one, can't forget the cancer treatments, the pain Mattie suffered, or his death. This will always be a part of my present and future. A future that is quite unlike what most people face.

Peter and I got on the road early today and we made it to the beach by 1pm. We had a nice lunch together and then headed to Ellen's house. Ellen, her family, and some of their friends are at the house for the memorial day weekend. Yesterday, Charlotte told her friends about us and about Mattie. As Ellen was relaying this message to me, she wanted me to know that Mattie is a part of Charlotte's life and she doesn't forget him. She informed her friends about cancer, particularly referring to Mattie's "bone bugs" and cells growing out of control. She also told them how brave Mattie was as he battled this disease. I think it is very meaningful when children try to educate other children about something they have experienced personally.

I feel thoroughly exhausted tonight. So I am signing off, but as always I thank you for visiting Mattie's blog and for staying connected to us.  

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