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 14, 2019

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2003. Mattie was a year old and not walking independently yet. However, he loved holding onto me, Peter, or a piece of furniture to toddle around the room. 
The coffee table behind Mattie, in a way unofficially measured his growth. As Mattie got older, I would snap photos of him by this same table. Mattie used to get a kick out of seeing photos of his stages of growth. 

Quote of the day: Like people, plants respond to extra attention.H. Peter Loewer


Today was an incredibly LONG day! Peter started at 6:30am. Not my hour! Nonetheless, we both put in a full day of cleaning our outdoor spaces and then planting. I am not sure which is worse, the clean up from winter, or the planting itself. Before I began in our garden, I first had to take Sunny for a long walk. We passed some beautiful trees today. Check out this crab apple tree near us. There are so many blossoms all around it that the grass underneath it looks covered in snow. 
The park near our complex is lined with crab apple trees. They are absolutely stunning and so fragrant. 
The dogwoods are also in bloom!
Sunny and Indie spent the majority of their day outside with us on the deck. I am happy to say that the majority of planting is now complete. There is more to do, but not to this magnitude! 
My window of herbs!
I can't tell you what a mess we picked up today! Next on the list is painting the deck. We do both of these things each spring. Sometimes I do not know where we will get the energy to do this, but once it is done we are so happy!
The view from Mattie's room. Mattie used to love his bird's eye view. 

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