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

October 21, 2014

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Tuesday, October, 21, 2014 -- Mattie died 267 weeks ago today.

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2004. We took Mattie to the Leesburg Animal Park Pumpkin Village and he had a great time! That was one of our family traditions that we did every year. Actually we went to that park often, because Mattie loved interacting with animals, but the combination of that with the fall festival activities was always a hit!!! Got to love the sheep, Peter, and Mattie in this photo! Each one of them had a story to tell.

Quote of the day: Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ... ~ E.A. Bucchianeri


It has been a whirlwind of a day as I have been doing last minute things to prepare for the trip to Toronto! I am signing off from DC and the next time you hear from me will hopefully be from Canada. Peter and I are presenting on Wednesday and on Saturday and in between we have dinners and other things to attend. So it should be a busy time for us! Of course with the beauty of technology, Peter is also juggling work from Canada! Which won't be easy for him, but somehow he seems to manage it! I am not sure where we would be without technology. It keeps us connected which is a blessing and a curse all at the same time. I am not implying I wish to live without technology, but...........................!!!! I was sent this great You Tube video the other day and the message in it does make you pause. Doesn't it??? The title of the video is "can we auto-correct humanity?"

http://youtu.be/dRl8EIhrQjQ

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