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

January 4, 2020

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2006. Our family tradition was to visit the US Botanical Gardens during December. We loved seeing the decorations and it was glorious to enter this hot house on a cold and grey Washington, DC day. 





Quote of the day: Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' Alfred Lord Tennyson



We woke up at 5:30am. Not my hour, but it had to be done to pack up, eat something and then head to the airport. Outside our hotel, we could see cruise ships returning to the Ft. Lauderdale harbor. As Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are big turn around days for cruises. In which around 18,000 people disembark and another 18,000 embark on a journey.
The Marriott Harbor Beach hotel before sunrise. 
Even at that hour, the property looks lovely. 
Our view once the sun came up. It was hard leaving this weather knowing we were returning to grayness and rain. 

The view of Fort Lauderdale from the sky. The pilot prepared us for a bumpy ride. We had a stop over in Charlotte, NC. However, despite the preparation, the turbulence wasn't bad! Thankfully. 
Can you see Cape Canaveral?
Charlotte, NC from the sky. Last December when we flew through Charlotte, Peter had food poisoning. He was vomiting non-stop and thankfully after several hours during our layover he stabilized at the airport and was able to fly back to DC. In comparison to last year, this year was peaceful. 
A granite quarry that we could see from the sky. 
Blue skies in Charlotte! The last time we saw blue skies today. 
Coming in the Washington, DC area. Notice the grayness? We were flying over Great Falls, VA. A place we walked often with Mattie.  
National Cathedral in DC.  
A sight I will never forget. I would recognize that AstroTurf in my sleep! Where is it? Try the campus of Georgetown University. Many of Mattie's hospital rooms overlooked this field. To me this field always made me depressed because it reminded me that we were imprisoned in the hospital while others were on the outside living a more normal and less life threatening life. 
The campus of Georgetown University. 
The beauty of Foggy Bottom, DC. Our neck of the woods. 
The Kennedy Center and Foggy Bottom.
A wonderful view of the National Mall. A place we walk often with Sunny. You can see the Lincoln Memorial, the reflection pool, and the Washington Monument. 
We are back home and spent several hours unpacking, going through two weeks of mail, and grocery shopping. Tomorrow we pick up Indie and Sunny. Sunny has been on a hunger strike for two weeks (as I get DAILY text message updates), so I know he will be thrilled to see us.

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