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

May 6, 2019

Monday, May 6, 2019

Monday, May 6, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2008. It was grandparent's day at Mattie's school. The school celebrates grandparents every spring and there is a special concert, reception, and then a tour of classrooms. I volunteered that day, and I am so happy I did. Because it was my first and last time taking my parents to this celebration. This was a photo my mom took of Mattie and me in the kindergarten classroom! 


Quote of the day: Donors don’t give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe.G.T. Smith


Our home is officially a warehouse! Today we got a lot of Walk items out of storage. This is always a very challenging time of year, not only with the stress of fundraising, and event coordination, but then our whole home turns upside down. 

Here are thousands of cups that we use at the Walk, as walkers earn a cup per lap. The cup is then placed through a chain link fence, and it makes quite a visual of laps and support.  
Today we had things piled on our deck and all over the house. 
This is one unhappy pooch! Sunny is not thrilled with change, noise, and forget the fact that his things were moved to accommodate boxes and items. 
Practically every wall is piled up with Walk items!
Get the picture!
This is today's fundraising thermometer. From yesterday, we jumped up $2,000. We are at 88% of our goal, or $87,973. 

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