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 1, 2014

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Wednesday, October, 1, 2014

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2007. There was a Fall Festival at Mattie's School and though he was only at this particular School for a month by that point, he already had friends and wanted to attend the event. This was truly wonderful because leaving Mattie's preschool community was very hard for us, and even Mattie did not want to leave preschool. Mattie met his buddy Kazu (in orange) in the summer of 2007, when I enrolled him in a half day summer camp. That was my strategy to help Mattie get to know children at the school before the Fall of 2007! In this photo is also Campbell (with the white t-shirt), who Mattie met in his kindergarten class and they became close friends. The two girls pictured here are Bethie (Kazu's sister) and Livi (Campbell's sister). Needless to say they all had a great time together at the Festival, running around, getting their faces painted, and going on moon bounces. 


Quote of the day: Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. ~ Louis L'Amour


I started writing yesterday and today I spent the day at home by the computer. I continued writing and putting my thoughts together. Fortunately things are flowing which I am happy about. I was really struggling for the past several weeks. I have carved out more writing time for the rest of the week too and have tried to identify targets of what I want to accomplish each day, so I am hoping I can meet them. That would certainly put me in a much better mental state and on the trajectory to having some sort of draft by my deadline. Having done a chapter this summer certainly helped because a lot of the research was already accumulated and the structure of how to write a chapter was already fresh in my head. Nonetheless, the discipline of sitting still and trying to get my thoughts across is tedious and at the end of the day I want to completely disengage from the computer. 

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