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 20, 2014

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2007. We took Mattie to the US Botanical Gardens in Washington, DC. Which is a wonderful place to visit at any time of the year, but it is particularly magical during the holiday season! This plant was growing and making a statement. I am not sure I would have paid much attention to it. But Mattie decided to go stand underneath it and when he did, it appeared as if he had a big bush of greenery on top of his head. It was a comical sight. 





Quote of the day: We rise by lifting others. ~ Robert Ingersoll


This week I went to the craft store and I purchased these two plain topiary frames! Then over the course of the next several days, I began to transform them! 
















Today this is what the finished products look like! I am not keeping them. Instead they are gifts for my friend who lost her mom this year. The butterfly symbolizes her mom and the cardinal is also a reminder that every time she sees a cardinal in nature, her departed loved ones are with her in some way. 

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