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

March 15, 2015

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2009. As you can see I am holding up a large pretzel. That may not look odd to you but of course there was a story behind the pretzel. That day our friend Ann was coming to visit us. Ann would always ask Mattie what he wanted before she came. That day Mattie said he wanted a large soft pretzel. Kind of like the type of pretzel one would find at a vendor on the streets of NYC, but not as easy to find in Washington, DC. I am not sure how Ann tracked down the pretzel, but as you can see this brought a smile to Mattie's face. Getting Mattie to eat anything was a feat, so when he requested something, those of us who were closest to the situation really jumped through hoops to try to accommodate such a request. 


Quote of the day: The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ~ Abraham Lincoln


Peter and I spent the day brainstorming the Foundation's Walk that is coming up on Sunday, May 17th. When we recently met with the Walk planning committee we discussed some changes to the event. So we really have been trying to think these ideas through before I meet with a smaller walk planning group tomorrow to flesh out the details. We have really needed this weekend to recuperate and honestly I have felt a pervasive tiredness that has been lingering for months. I worked through last summer on writing two book chapters and then hit this year hard with Foundation activities. Not having any down time has been very problematic and I can only hope that this summer is different.  

This afternoon, we went out to buy more bird seed..... something that we do each weekend! While walking through Home Depot, I was excited to see that their garden center is coming to life!!!! They were featuring solar garden lights and one that looked like a big orange sun! So we bought it and stuck it in our commons area tonight. It needs to charge tomorrow in the sunlight, but from Mattie's bedroom, I can already see it glowing in the darkness tonight. It seems rather symbolic that this orange globe is sitting in Mattie's memorial garden. 

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