Mattie Miracle Walk 2023 was a $131,249 success!

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

December 30, 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2002. Mattie was eight months old and as you can see he desperately wanted to walk! I loved the particular onesie he was wearing because of the reindeer featured on the backside. Mattie was an active baby. He did not like sitting still and crawling was a joke to him. Forget tummy time! Mattie did not care for lying on his stomach even as he got older. With Mattie I learned to be creative with movement and even when he was a little bitty thing, I couldn't just hold him in my arms. He wanted to be bounced and really jiggled hard. To others what I was doing must have looked quite bizarre, but if this movement calmed him down, made him happy, and stopped the crying, I did it! Clinically, I would say Mattie conditioned me to do these activities because they generated positive feedback or results.

Quote of the day: Kind hearts are the gardens. Kind thoughts are the roots. Kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits. ~ Kirpal Singh

I am working in slow motion today. We both feel like we are still on the ship, despite being back on solid ground. It is a very funny feeling and hard to describe. Needless to say, I am still taking Dramamine because this is the prime time when I can develop motion sickness.

Patches is now home and she is thrilled to be back. For her this is a major adjustment, and I can tell that she is very anxious and uneasy from being away from home. Needless to say she is sticking close to her buddy, Peter. She is Peter's shadow. He can't do anything without her following him. She even sits in the bathroom while he showers!

We received our mail today in bulk from our time away. This year, we were inundated with Christmas cards. To all of you who thought of us, we thank you! Naturally we are also very grateful to so many of you who have made a contribution to the Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation. This is a wonderful way to memorialize and remember Mattie, and to us this is the ultimate holiday gift.  

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