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

November 24, 2019

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2002. Mattie was 7 months old. He loved looking at books, seeing the pictures, and hearing me tell him stories. As I always say, Mattie was born ON! He always wanted to engage with the world and take everything in. 


Quote of the day: Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie

Peter's parents are coming into town for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I set up Mattie's room and look who seems to have claimed the aero mattress! Got to love Sunny!
Peter and I spent the day doing chores and later in the afternoon, we treated Sunny to a walk on Roosevelt Island. Typically Sunny doesn't walk out on this log. It was a first today! Peter and Mattie always did this together. But when Peter led Sunny out on the log, like Mattie, Sunny was eager to explore new territory!
In the midst of our walk, I can't tell you how many people stopped us. They wanted to pet Sunny and wanted to know what kind of pooch he was! Sunny gets a lot of attention where ever he goes. A whole family with children even came up to Sunny and pet him all over, and he just stood still and was very patient! 

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