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 4, 2019

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2008. Literally two months before Mattie was diagnosed with cancer. It seems hard to imagine, since he looks so healthy here! Mattie loved playing on our deck, and as you can see he would take items from around our home and be creative. That day, he took several of my flower boxes, taped them together, and threaded them through our tomato plant guards. Once the whole thing was assembled he then got out his cars and trucks and played away. 






Quote of the day: You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~ Maya Angelou

I woke up in a funk today, most likely because I knew I had another very full day of work ahead of me. But this was creative work. Because I had piles of raffle items in Mattie's room. I had to go from piles to the creation of 12 Foundation raffle baskets. That may sound easy, but the staging of these 12 baskets took me all day. 
In addition to baskets, I also have toiletry items that have to be delivered to Baltimore, to stock our cart at Children's Hospital at Sinai. But I don't have the time right now to leave DC. So instead, I feel like I am living in a warehouse. This is not a look that makes me happy, as piles like this make me feel like I am living in chaos. It reminds me of the piles we lived with when Mattie was battling cancer. Piles that took me years to process through after he die. 

Here's today's fundraising thermometer..... $85,437!

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