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

August 30, 2018

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2006. That summer we took Mattie to Los Angeles to visit my parents. From there, we all went to San Diego. While there, we visited Mattie's favorite theme park.... Legoland. Here you can see Mattie on top of a Lego fire truck! This was the ideal park for Mattie, since he LOVED Legos. But really it is a venue that appeals to people of all ages. 


Quote of the day: Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~ Hans Christian Andersen


Sunny & Vicki vs The Heat!!! THE HEAT WON!

Sunny and I took two big walks today. It was the kind of heat that literally after each walk, I felt ill. The kind of symptoms one has with heat stroke.... headache, nausea, dizziness, and rapid heartbeat.

For the second walk in the afternoon, I was so out of it, both Sunny and I landed up sitting on the air conditioning vent. It was the only way I could restabilize. 


As August is coming to a close, the inevitable is upon us.... September. I truly dislike that month, for multiple reasons. The top one being it's the month that Mattie died. But second, September is national childhood cancer awareness month. It is a MONTH that gets a TON of attention in social media...... with go gold campaigns. Certainly awareness of childhood cancer has to happen, but why only in September? These campaigns really upset me because cancer is a 12 month, 365 day a year problem. Not just a 30 day issue. As the calendar turns over the facebook postings will be flying all over the place. It is hard to be upbeat about these messages when I know they do little to affect change. At the end of the day, putting it bluntly, the medicine failed Mattie. Not only Mattie, it fails thousands of children in the USA each year. When putting it in this context or looking at it from my lens, seeing all the ads and facebook likes does not provide much comfort or peace. 

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