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

January 26, 2015

Monday, January 26, 2015

Monday, January 26, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in February of 2004. Mattie was about two years old and when we had snow, rest assured we were out in it! Mattie was intrigued by the white stuff and loved to go out and play in it, build in it, and just be a part of it. I did not like the cold or being out in the snow, but I tolerated it with Mattie's insistence. Mattie was big on making snowmen and tunnels and as you can see in this photo, Mattie was outside and all business trying to assess what we were going to do that day on our deck. 





Quote of the day: Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Peter was scheduled to travel to Nashville today, but it never happened. Given the blizzard in the Northeast, his flight was cancelled. Fortunately so, otherwise he would have been stranded tonight unable to get home! I have had a full day working in front of a computer, so I am sharing a fun photo instead tonight. 

This evening Peter went outside on our deck and came back inside with this in his hand..... a snowball! If Mattie were here, he would have gotten a huge chuckle out of this. Actually I am quite sure if Mattie were alive he would have been right along side Peter in the snow tonight! 

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