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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

December 30, 2017

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2005. We took Mattie to Fort Lauderdale at Christmas time and met up with my parents. Whenever we went to Florida, we always visited Butterfly World. This photo was taken in the lorikeet house. This may look familiar to some of my faithful readers, as I took a photo of Peter on Tuesday in this same location. Feeding the lorikeets is a daunting undertaking because they are loud, do a lot of squawking and will swoop all around you if you are holding a cup of nectar. I know last week a woman tried to feed the lorikeets but she was so intimidated by the birds that she literally threw the nectar cup up in the air and ran away. In this photo, you can see that Mattie was somewhat hesitant to feed the birds himself, yet he wanted to observe the experience.  


Quote of the day: The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~ JB Priestley


In just a matter of days we went from 80 degree temperatures to now being in the 20's! It is a real rude awakening. We went to bed and there was NO SNOW and then we woke up this morning and there was a dusting of snow everywhere. The fact that it is so cold, this dusting isn't going to disappear very quickly. 

Despite the frigid temperatures, Sunny still has to walk. We took him to Roosevelt Island today and I snapped this photo of Georgetown University in the distance. I can't look at those spires without thinking of Mattie and his cancer treatments on that campus. 

Walking through the snow on Roosevelt Island. Sunny absolutely LOVES stalking anything that moves or scurries!
Can you see the water around the Island is frozen!?
Sunny was checking out the frozen water and looking for any creatures to catch his attention. It was so cold today we saw nothing moving! 

1 comment:

Margy Jost said...

Vicki, When we visited BUTTERFLY WORKD last January, I enjoyed every minute. However, I chose not to go into the area with the Lorikeets. I had Mattie's hesitant look standing outside and know I may very well behaved as the woman did, throwing the cup in the air. So I observed from the outside those lovely birds.

I love snow, to wake up to it, watch it fall, all the magic of it. Then Inwant it gone, the temps to rise and some warmth to come back. Growing up in Wisconsin, the cold was part of your life for many months. Living in Virginia since the summer of 1975, has made it difficult to get warm in the frigid air.