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

May 13, 2015

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2009. This was the first Mattie Walk, that was hosted by our care and support community. They wanted Mattie to know they were behind him and were celebrating his pending end of treatment. Of course none of us knew that 6 weeks off of treatment, Mattie's cancer was going to spread everywhere. The Foundation has built off of this Walk, but the premise of the Walk started when Mattie was alive. What I love about this photo was you may notice that Mattie was looking at the ground! As if he lost something, or was looking for something he dropped! What he was looking for were.... tent moth caterpillars. He actually came home that day from the Walk with about 6 of them! Not unusual, since Mattie loved to watch the metamorphosis process every spring. Next to Mattie is Zachary, Mattie's closest preschool buddy and pushing Mattie in the wheelchair is Brandon, Mattie's big buddy from the hospital. But who I also notice in the background of this photo was Margaret. My friend and Mattie's preschool teacher who died last June after battling ALS. 


Quote of the day: If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. Chinese Proverb


I am too tired to write tonight, but I did want to post this beautiful photo my good friend Mary Ann sent me. We call this glorious rose bush, "Margaret's bush." It is a rose bush near where Mary Ann lives. After Margaret died, Mary Ann would pass this bush and think about Margaret. Especially after I mentioned that Margaret loved and cultivated all kinds of roses. As a tribute to Margaret's death, I began to collect photos of roses and Mary Ann sent me several, including some from this bush. So in a way we like to follow the health and look of this bush throughout the seasons. To me, today's sight was glorious despite the grey skies. 

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