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

January 5, 2019

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2002. This was one of the MANY photos we took of Mattie in order to capture just the right pose for our first family Christmas card. We started taking photos inside on the couch. But when I saw that it was snowing, we changed the backdrop (which ultimately was a good idea, as it was Mattie in the snow that was featured on our Christmas card in 2002). As you might guess Mattie wasn't pleased with my photographing demands!

Quote of the day: A brand new year could be considered the seed, and your goals could be the buds, but taking action and achieving your dreams, well, that is the flower. May the New Year be your seed and may you have lots of flowers to inspire you! ~ Kate Summers


Since we returned from Florida last Sunday, we haven't seen the sun. It has been one depressingly gray day after the other. It would be very easy to spend the whole day at home in weather like this, but fortunately Sunny doesn't give us this option. He needs to go out regardless of the weather. To combat the grayness, we tried to have an active day. We walked about 7 miles today, some with Sunny and some without. 


To me this blog posting features the ugly and the beautiful! This of course is the ugly. Before I went away to Florida (which was only two weeks ago), this wall near the US State Department was graffiti free. When I got home, this is what I was greeted with. I have no idea why NO ONE else reports this disgusting sight, but I tend to be the one it bothers the most in my neighborhood. Today, I photographed this nonsense and reported it to the DC Department of Works. I am not a graffiti fan at all, and I especially do not like it when it is absolutely ugly and detracts from our Nation's capital. 

In comparison to the above photo, this is the beautiful! Inside of our living room. Despite the weather, it is always nice to see green things thriving inside over the winter months. 

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