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

November 23, 2018

Friday, November 23, 2018

Friday, November 23, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2005. This sight wasn't atypical for us. Mattie LOVED to paint with his feet. I literally would put newsletter down on the floor, get out paint and Mattie would go to town. He made some wonderful designs for note cards this way. The beauty of Mattie however, was he was neat. He understood that once he was done painting with his feet, he couldn't step off the newspaper. Instead he would wait for me to carry him to the kitchen sink to clean his feet.  







Quote of the day: What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~ Erma Bombeck




One word that captures how I feel........ TIRED! We drove for about 8 hours from Boston to Washington, DC today. We left 12 degree temperatures and are now back to the 30's in DC. Ironically the 30's feels like a heat wave in comparison. Thankfully we did not hit massive amounts of Thanksgiving weekend traffic. 

Sunny and Indie are thrilled to be back home. Sunny did not handle this trip as well as he usually does, as he seemed very anxious on both long car trips. Indie, managed it all like a champ and is back to business as usual. The beauty of a cat. 

Unpacked, laundry done, and everything put away. Signing off for tonight. 

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