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 18, 2018

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2005. We took Mattie to the National Geographic Museum, and outside the Museum was this bronze sculpture of a monkey. Naturally, it was too intriguing to pass up the opportunity to climb on it. Ironically that was the first and last time Peter and I ever went to that Museum. I am not sure why, most likely because we went there with Mattie and there really isn't a reason to venture back again. 







Quote of the day: Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. ~ Rick Warren



It was a long day for the four of us. Of course catching the cat and putting her in a the carrying case is always a hoot. Indie seems to know just when change is coming and in response she hides under our bed. Trying to get her out took two of us this morning. Needless to say, twenty minutes later we caught her and boxed her. 

Sunny gets very concerned about Indie and for the first three hours of our car ride, he was facing her in the blue box. You can just see Sunny's apprehension, can't you?

Sunny had trouble settling down in the car today. Typically he sits still on long trips, but not today. At many points he was up on all fours trying to assess where we were going and what was going to happen to him. 

It took us close to 8 hours to drive to Boston, and that included three rest stops to walk Sunny. 

When I snapped this photo, Peter joked with me that Sunny wasn't happy that we had just entered into NYC. Since he deems Sunny a Red Sox fan. Got to love that thinking!
This evening, Peter's parents celebrated his birthday with a lovely cake. He wasn't expecting this surprise, but I am happy I captured it. 

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