A Remembrance Video of Mattie

Thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive!

Dear Mattie Blog Readers,

It means a great deal to me that you take the time to write and to share your thoughts, feelings, and reflections on Mattie's battle and death. Your messages are very meaningful and help support me through very challenging times. I am 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 have stopped writing on September 9, 2010. However, like my journey with grief there is so much that 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 me, and most importantly thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive.


As Mattie would say, Ooga Booga (meaning, I LOVE YOU)! Vicki



June 17, 2015

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Wednesday, June 17, 2015


Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2003. Mattie was 14 months old and we were visiting Great Falls Park. As you can see he was very intrigued by this Canadian Goose. Mattie loved birds and ducks and understood that they were not something that should be chased. This goose was equally fascinated by Mattie and was waddling over to say hello. I remember this moment and found it so adorable that I reached for my camera to capture it! 







Quote of the day: Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henri Nouwen


I spent the entire day working on our Foundation's upcoming June newsletter, which will feature our Walk photos and information about our Walk results. This has been a real labor of love. A labor which has taken many weeks, just to get to this point. Because we had a lot of digging out to do post-walk and a lot to organize and make sense out of in order to report some facts. But the newsletter is slowly coming along. I am taking on other big projects this summer like redoing our Foundation brochure, which has to be ready for the July conference, and the even larger task of revamping our entire Foundation website. That requires training, which I am going for on Friday. I am not technologically savvy, so designing a website should be a pip. But since I designed the Walk website from the ground up, I feel slightly more confident, that I can take on this project. However, the overall Foundation website needs a whole new and modern look and our lobbyist's company is consulting with us on this project. I tend to write and be wordy and websites today need to tell a story ALL through photos and graphics. So I will need a lot of help! 

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