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

December 3, 2017

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2008. A colleague of mine is a quilter and lives in the Midwest. She had been reading Mattie's blog back then and noticed that people referred to Mattie as "Super Mattie." So literally she surprised me with this wonderful gift. I still have this quilt and love it. Mattie was indeed SUPER, given all that he endured for 13 months in treatment. It truly was super human, because I am not sure most adults could have handled what Mattie faced...... and remained smiling. 






Quote of the day: The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. ~ Carl Sandburg


Check out our postal cat supervisor. The mass mailing process continued today. Who knew Indie would love a US postal box? She doesn't like cardboard boxes at all! Newsflash..... the boxes are going to the post office tomorrow, so Indie will need to be relocated out of them.  
Looks cozy no? I may post a lot of photos of Sunny, but do not mistake who rules the roost in our home. Indie has her way of getting exactly what she wants. 
Though tonight is a Super Moon (a supermoon happens when the full moon coincides with the moon's closest approach to Earth in its orbit. Supermoons make the moon appear a little brighter and closer than normal), I can't see it at all in DC! Peter went looking for it, but couldn't find Mattie Moon. 

My mom sent me a big moon photo outside her home in Los Angeles!
My friend in cancer, sent me this photo of the moon in Arlington, VA. So I know it is out there!!!

1 comment:

Margy Jost said...

Vicki, I was so glad to see the Mattie moon in all its glory! Your Mom got. An amazing picture. I was so glad to see it and your quote is very meaningful, as usual