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

April 29, 2019

Monday, April 29, 2019

Monday, April 29, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2008. Mattie was in kindergarten, and I got to visit the classroom that day. I took a photo of Mattie showing me his writer's workshop story. Basically Mattie was learning to write letters and words and string them together to tell a story. To inspire his story creations, his teacher asked for Mattie to bring in five photos of things, places, or people he wanted to write about. Mattie typically liked to bring in photos taken from nature. So this was Mattie's attempt to illustrate his story, with letters and words underneath it! Though Mattie was a good story teller, writer's workshop wasn't one of his favorite class exercises. 


Quote of the day: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. ~ Buddha


During the Foundation's Walk season, I feel like the jack of all trades. I have to coordinate the actual event and people, deal with permits and city requirements, all Walk materials, and not to mention fundraising! This year is our 10th anniversary and as such I am determined to raise $100,000! The Walk is an enormous effort and my joke is to host a non-walk walk! Funny, no? 

I track our fundraising thermometer closely each day. On April 22, it read $55,900 out of $100,000. 

Then on April 23, we had a very generous donor contribute $15,000, and up popped our thermometer to $71,494. 
As of today, we reached 76% of our goal, or $75,768. We are on our way, but do not think that means I am sitting back thinking that this will just happen! Instead, now we will be sending out messages through emails, newsletters, and social media to encourage people to attend the Walk, and if not, consider making a donation or participating in our raffle. Every dollar counts! To learn more go to: www.mmcfwalk.com

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