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

November 11, 2017

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2003. Mattie was a year and a half old and we took him to a petting zoo in Virginia. As you can see Mattie was absolutely fascinated by the animals!






Quote of the day: Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. ~ Elizabeth Andrew


Mattie Miracle’s Candy Drive is now closed! We thank all of our supporters for making this Drive a success! We had a final sorting session today and our final count is 70 filled bins of candy! Deliveries start on Monday!
Special thanks to today’s sorters:

Catherine Canterbury
Sara Catherine Canterbury
Peggy Elkind
Abby Doane
Mary Doane
Michael Doane
Helen Kelly
Maria Van Horn
Debbie Keefe
Anais
Kathleen


This is what the garage looks like.... filled with bins!!! While we finished sorting a ton of candy today inside, Peter spent a good portion of the day outside (mind you it feels like 20 degrees outside today) reorganizing bins in rows, so that our deliveries next week will go more smoothly! Each row represents a day of the week and its delivery. 
Our friend Catherine and her daughter, Sara Catherine, joined us later in the day to finish up with sorting and clean up. Mattie and Sara Catherine went to preschool together. 
At the end of the sorting session, we had a drop off of two boxes of candy from Silver Spring, MD. Erickson and Hong Orthodontics were new contributors to our Drive this year, and so happy to have met Monica DeLeon, the receptionist in the office. Monica is delightful and truly wants to support Mattie Miracle. It was lovely of her to personally drive the candy to Alexandria today!!

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