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

September 1, 2013

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Tonight's picture was taken
in September of 2008. Mattie was home between treatments and a friend gave him this singing and dancing yellow bird in the background. What you may not be able to tell was that as the bird was singing, and its head was bopping up and down, Peter and Mattie were dancing right along with the bird. Which was why I snapped this photo. Though there were many, many upsetting and depressing moments in Mattie's treatment, there were glimmers of fun just like this which I tried to capture. There was nothing normal about our life back then so the fact that there were times in which we smiled and laughed was a testament to Mattie's strength and his bond with us.


Quote of the day: There are two ways to spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton


Peter and I are absolutely exhausted tonight. We have been painting for two days straight. Slowly our first floor is getting transformed. Our ceilings went from a dull grey to a sparkling white! I am thrilled to see white ceilings and we selected a very Mattie Miracle color for our walls. Seven years ago we painted our walls a light peach color. Now as you maybe able to see we selected a color called luminary! It is a beautiful sunny peach! It makes our space glow, just as if a ray of sun was illuminating the room!


Here is a another photo of the chaos we are living in! Peter and I are a great painting team, because he can handle the rolling and the big jobs associated with painting, and I am great on a ladder and with details. But we are learning about muscles tonight that we never knew we had! Everything aches. We only have baseboards tomorrow, so we really put LABOR, into this labor day weekend.

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