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 25, 2018

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken on July 25, 2009. The last birthday I celebrated with Mattie alive. That day, he designed a lovely lighthouse birthday card for me with the help of my in-laws. Mattie knew I loved lighthouses, and I think with more time, he would have been just as fascinated with them as I am. 

But check out that smile! I honestly do not know where Mattie found the energy or inner happiness to smile. Given all he endured and the fact that cancer was rapidly spreading throughout his body, he was absolutely amazing. 




Quote of the day: The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~ Lucile Ball



Another gray and rainy day in DC! This marks 5 days in a row of this delightful weather. Peter took me out to lunch at Fiola Mare today. This restaurant is very close to where we live. So we literally walked to lunch alongside the Potomac River. Thankfully while walking, there was no rain. 
We had a lovely waiter today who was efficient and not obtrusive. Which has happened to us once before at this restaurant. But the food and setting are so special. 
We had a lovely four course lunch. Peter started with a stone fruit salad. Are you aware of stone fruit, being cherries and peaches, or any fruit with a  pit? Any case, Peter had a salad and I had gazpacho. 
















Then we got their famous lobster ravioli to split. 
Peter had scallops and I had halibut. As you can see I ate most of it before I remembered to snap a photo of the dish. It was delicious. 
For dessert we had a lemon spumoni, a dessert with bing cherries and ricotta gelato, as well as their complimentary birthday dessert. Lunch was my favorite part of the day! It was a lunch to remember. 
Meanwhile, tomorrow we are going to a check signing party at Children's Hospital at Sinai. For every check signing we have ever done, I always bake cupcakes. 

Mattie loved cupcakes while he was undergoing cancer treatment. In fact, we used the cupcakes as incentives to do physical therapy. So by bringing cupcakes to our check signings, Mattie is always with us. 
This year I found sugar shaped butterflies. So I added them to the top of the cupcakes. As my loyal readers know, butterflies are the symbolic creatures in nature that remind me of Mattie. 

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