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Thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive!

Dear Mattie Blog Readers,

It means a great deal to me that you take the time to write and to share your thoughts, feelings, and reflections on Mattie's battle and death. Your messages are very meaningful and help support me through very challenging times. I am 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 have stopped writing on September 9, 2010. However, like my journey with grief there is so much that 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 me, and most importantly thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive.


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



A Remembrance Video of Mattie

October 13, 2014

Monday, October 13, 2014

Monday, October 13, 2014

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2006. I happen to love this photo Peter took of Mattie and me with this wonderfully whitish pumpkin. This thing was huge, but the true gift of the photo was Mattie's adorable smile and how much he was enjoying the Fall Festival. 

Quote of the day: Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. ~ Ron Suskind


In the midst of another grey and rainy Washington, DC day, our Butterfly Ginger Lily is blooming!!! This plant has been an incredible producer and I am so happy we brought it home from the Outer Banks of North Carolina in June. I will never forget the man who told us about it. When Peter and I visited the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island of the Outer Banks, we met one of the grounds keepers of the Gardens. I got to talking with him and he told me that working in the Gardens was special for him ever since he lost his grandmother. In a way connecting with nature helps him stay connected to her. He was talking my language! As we were talking he educated Peter and I about the Butterfly Ginger Lilies that he had planted and how special these plants are! He told me that when they blossom I was going to absolutely love their fragrance because they are intoxicating! So before we left the gardens that day we went to the gift shop and bought a small plant to take home. Needless to say since June, this small plant has grown to my size and has been producing incredible flowers that to me smell like jasmine or gardenias. Depending on the moment you capture them. Either case, they are very special and smell nothing like a lily!!!! Seeing these flowers are a wonderful gift to receive on a grey Fall day. 

 For the past 48 hours I have been glued to a computer and at the same time doing a test at home for my kidney stones. So it has been quite the process. I figured since I was going to be home attached to the computer, this would be the perfect time to get this test over with for my nephrologist. All I can say is that in three days this book chapter will be turned in and this will conclude book chapters for me for a while. I have been at it for five months now, so this will be a real reprieve!
Posted by The Brown Family (DC) at 7:29 PM

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