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

December 1, 2018

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken on December 5, 2002.  This was Mattie's first time seeing the snow. I literally opened the front door for him to see it. He quickly zoomed over in his tot wheels to check it out. Mattie actually loved the snow and as he got older, he loved playing in it. On snow days we were both outside in the cold for hours because Mattie loved to create and build in it. In fact it was on the very day captured in this picture that we dressed Mattie up in his little Santa suit, dragged tot wheels in the snow and then snapped photos. Of which one of those photos was on the cover of our Christmas card that year.


Quote of the day: Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. Karen Joy Fowler


It was another stellar weather day in Washington, DC. More rain of course, because we haven't had enough yet apparently! On top of the rain, it was frigid. However, if we wait for the perfect weekend to decorate Mattie's tree, it would never get dressed up for Christmas. 

I snapped this photo today of our 4th tree, a White Swamp Oak. This tree was most recently planted in September, around the anniversary of Mattie's death. 

We bought several ornaments for the tree while in Boston over Thanksgiving. Many of our previous ornaments got destroyed. Because it was pouring I did not stick around to take a lot of photos, but I placed an ornament on the tree that says, "Matthew."
This is a photo of memorial tree #3. It is a Yellowwood tree. This tree looked horrible over the spring and summer. Because it was hit by another tree in a storm. The School did not remove this tree, so it stands about twenty feet from Mattie's current tree. Needless to say, I put a bow around it today and Peter hung some ornaments on it. 

It is very meaningful to have these memorial trees planted in Mattie's honor. However, at the end of the day, this is definitely not how we envisioned our lives with Mattie. There is no amount of time that can go by which will enable us to understand or be at peace about this loss. 

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