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

July 3, 2018

Monday, July 2, 2018

Monday, July 2, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2007. This was the summer before Mattie was diagnosed with cancer. We took Mattie to San Diego with my parents. After a full day of touring around, Mattie was still raring to go. So afternoons were pool time. This photo was taken right after Mattie and Peter came out of the water. 

Quote of the day: To make a difference in someone's life, you don't have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care. Mandy Hale



I packed up all the Mattie items I found around the house today. Mattie visited my parents several times when he was alive and on each visit accumulated items. Things like books, toys, Legos (of course), hotwheel cars, a leaf (Mattie loved nature), and he even left behind some art work. 

This class photo was taken during Mattie's second year at preschool. 
One of Mattie's works of art  that I found at my parent's home. Mattie loved boats! If you were to ask him what he wanted and was saving money to buy, his response would have been.... a boat. NOT a toy boat, but he wanted a real boat, which was why we used to call him Captain Mattie.

More work was done today. I focused on my dad's closet. I moved all his clothes and shoes from one house to the other. 
Later in the day, I moved my mom's LLadro collection. More in store for us tomorrow! 
Meanwhile, check out the pooch of the day photo that Peter sent me today. It is over hundred degrees in DC with high humidity. This was Sunny after a walk. He headed right to the air conditioning unit, and sat on the fan! Got to love him.

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