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 21, 2019

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2002. Mattie was 7 months old and Peter snapped this photo of us in front of our amazing oak tree. Ironically, we came to love that oak tree as Mattie grew older. When Mattie was a preschooler, every spring he'd collect tent moth caterpillars. He'd bring them home and we would jar them and wait for them to spin cocoons and eventually transform into moths. However, in caterpillar form, these fellows loved oak leaves. Daily we would go to our oak tree and pick a few leaves to share with the hungry caterpillars. The funny part about this is the only oak tree near us was the one outside our window and the ONLY leaves these caterpillars would eat were OAK!


Quote of the day: As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever. Arthur Honegger


It's been a very full November! As we had the 9th annual Candy Drive and Friends of the Foundation planned a Champagne and Oysters 10th anniversary celebration for Mattie Miracle. This was the very first fundraiser in our history to be planned by supporters, in which we were not involved. Except for the administrative portion. Which believe it or not, is quite labor intensive. All said and done, when I am finished, I probably will have written and sent over 90 thank you acknowledgment letters. 

The event was a $33,000 success. Planning and the expenses of holding such an event are noteworthy, and the generosity of our friends does not go unnoticed or unappreciated. To learn more about the event, I invite you to click on the photo of the flowers to see the highlight video from the event. In addition, below the video, is a link to our website that provides more event details.  



Learn more about the event @ https://www.mattiemiracle.com/news

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