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 30, 2019

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Tuesday, April 30, 2019 -- Mattie died 501 weeks ago today.

Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2008. Mattie was six years old, and it was three months before he was diagnosed with cancer. Can you see why I referred to Mattie as my "little engineer?" Mattie was intrigued with how things worked even as a toddler, and by age two he knew how to use a screwdriver to disassemble and reassemble his toy cars!


Quote of the day: The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ~ Albert Einstein


As I mentioned last night, I track our Foundation's thermometer daily! Well more like several times a day! It helps me track how we are doing or what we need to do to make to our goal. Last night, the tally was $75,768! Look at today's..........
$82,192. 

It may seem easy to raise money, but I assure you it ISN'T! Which maybe why it is hard to get people to fundraise for a cause! Yet thankfully we have cultivated a support base which is committed to our work. I don't take that for granted and it doesn't go unnoticed. Without our supporters all things are possible and one of the greatest possibilities is keeping Mattie's memory alive.  

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