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

November 10, 2014

Monday, November 10, 2014

Monday, November 10, 2014

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2008. Mattie was pictured with his big buddy, Brandon. Brandon and Mattie battled cancer at the same time and despite their age difference they were close friends. In fact toward the end of his life, Mattie considered Brandon one of his best friends! As you can see, Mattie and Brandon's IV poles were decorated! Brandon started this tradition and Mattie followed suit. When Brandon completed his treatment at the hospital, he actually took his Wall-E decorative IV pole cut out that he created and gave it to Mattie. Mattie was very honored and used it often. In fact, at times it was hard to engage Mattie either emotionally or in conversation, but somehow Mattie liked talking about the origami cranes or the other decorations hanging on his IV pole.

Quote of the day: To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. ~ Benjamin Franklin



Today I drove around the District of Columbia picking up candy for the annual drive. I want to thank Diana Meltzer (Associate Head of School; ) at the Lab School of Washington for coordinating our drive at her school for a second year in a row.  I had the opportunity to meet many of the students and even took a photo! A photo which will be going into our upcoming newsletter! Because minors are in this photo, I only have permission to display it in our newsletter! Our candy drive was advertised through local DC listservs! I thank our friend Ildi for spearheading this effort and collecting the candy!!! Last but not least, we thank Daisy Troop 879 in DC for their wonderful candy contribution and hand drawn messages of hope to children in the hospital! The cards were adorable and so colorful! 


When I got home today, I had to cart all this candy upstairs into our home! That was another labor of love! Then of course it all needed to be sorted. This was the pile collected from the Lab School alone! Rather impressive!!!









Meanwhile at my friend Tina's house, she had a sorting party going on with the candy she pick up and collected from all over town today. 










As you can see there were volunteers of all ages! I hear they all had a good time, loved working together, and felt a real sense of purpose and community!











This is what Tina's trunk looked like today! I think we are going to need a uhaul soon, forget about a car!

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