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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 28, 2019

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2008. Mattie received a package in the mail from our former neighbors who moved to NYC. They wanted Mattie to know they were thinking of him on his birthday and hadn't forgotten him. This brown paper was what the package came in. It had all sorts of fun and musical messages on it. So we hung it up and put it on display for a day or so! Mattie loved it!


Quote of the day: Best to take the moment present, As a present for the moment. ~ Stephen Sondheim


Typically on the weekends we work the whole time! This was a different sort of weekend, starting with seeing Jay Leno live at the Kennedy Center on Friday. He was stellar, and though he says he is 68 years old, he did one stand up routine after the other for 90 straight minutes. He makes age look like it is all in one's head, as his endurance and wittiness were spot on! He was warm, humorous, and classy! He left everyone feeling a bit lighter, unlike most of the late night comedy on TV today!

At Jay Leno on Friday, we bumped into our neighbors who told us about Curtains the musical. So we went to see a matinee production of it today, by a community theater group. I would say the Arlington Players did a great job given that they had a very spoofy plot to work with. It was light, humorous, and fun. I can see why this show did not do well in LA or on Broadway, as the music isn't memorable and the plot is convoluted and unbelievable. But other than that, it was a great escape from our usual weekend routine. 


Read more on Curtains.......

Based on the original book and concept of the same name by Peter Stone, the musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts and follows the fallout when Jessica Cranshaw, the supremely untalented star of Robbin' Hood of the Old West is murdered during her opening night curtain call. It is up to Lt. Frank Cioffi, a police detective who moonlights as a musical theater fan to save the show, solve the case, and maybe even find love before the show reopens, without getting killed himself. Cioffi also dreams of being in musical theater. The show opened on Broadway to mixed reviews, though several critics praised the libretto and the character of Lieutenant Cioffi, who critic Ben Brantley called "the best damn musical theatre character since Mama Rose in 'Gypsy', and the best role of David Hyde Pierce's career."

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