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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



A Remembrance Video of Mattie

November 30, 2015

Monday, November 30, 2015

Monday, November 30, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2006. Mattie was four years old and doing one of the things he enjoyed to do.... paint things on the floor of our dining room. Sometimes Mattie would do hand and foot prints there and other times he would build wooden models and paint them. As you can see he built a dinosaur and was painting it that day. Mattie was always eager to take on a building project and to create! He could do all these activities for hours. Then he would incorporate his creations into his play schemes. Mattie was never boring. 



Quote of the day: And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for. Tessa Dare




The Los Angeles International Airport is ALL decked out for Christmas! There was this beautiful tree in the middle of the American Airlines terminal, there was Christmas music playing all over the airport, and what caught my attention was up over my head..... where the flags in this picture are located. 

A wonderful toy Christmas Train was chugging along. It was moving overhead, all around the perimeter of the tree! The train made choo choo sounds and I know if Mattie were with us, this train would have been very exciting to see!


Here is a close up of the train. Got to love the little polar bear sitting on top of the car in the back. 

We went from sunshine this morning in LA, to grayness and rain in DC. However, after a week away in which we celebrated Thanksgiving and my mom's milestone birthday, we can say that we are safely back in DC after a successful trip. 

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