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

December 13, 2014

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2003. Mattie was a year and a half old and was riding a horse for the first time in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. I am not sure whose facial expression here was more priceless, Mattie's or Peter's!!! Both capture the thrill of the moment! 


Quote of the day: The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. ~ Lois Lowry


Last night, I was trying to upload the following two photos to the blog to highlight the riverboat that we were on for Peter's office holiday party! However, I was having connectivity issues at home!!! The name of the boat we sailed on was The Cherry Blossom! The irony is when Peter was in business school, Georgetown University held its spring formal for its MBAs aboard this boat! So this was our second time on this recreation of a Victorian riverboat.

This is what the interior of the river boat looks like. 













Peter and I spent the majority of the day doing Foundation work! This evening we went out to dinner for a break. On our drive home, we literally had a Red Fox cross RIGHT IN FRONT of our car. It wasn't as if we were in the woods!!! Our car was on the road, in a densely populated part of town!!! It caught us by surprise!!!

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