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 29, 2020

Friday, May 29, 2020

Friday, May 29, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2002. Mattie was about one month old. We were sitting outside on our deck getting some fresh air. As you can see, even at that young age, Mattie was full of life, motion, and wanted to understand what Peter was doing! 




Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 1,735,971
  • number of people who died from the virus: 102,323


I went to the post office today for Mattie Miracle business, and what I noticed for the first time was people out and about and dining outside on patios. Virginia is in phase one of opening and this allows restaurants to open their outdoor portions. I can't tell you what a glorious sign this was today, it was like a ray of hope. 

This is the first time Peter and I ordered entrees to go. Don't ask me why we never did this before, but after months of non-stop cooking, it was delightful to eat trout NOT prepared by me!






For the last two weeks, I have been working on this year's Walk video. It was a labor of love this year as we had messages and photos coming from all over the place. It took me a while just to get those communications organized and then to figure out how to highlight the virtual walk. It is much easier covering a live event, but a virtual one has to tell a story. I am hoping after clicking on the video below and watching it, you feel the incredible energy that we received through social media. I am not sharing this video yet on our social media platforms, but will within the next week or so. So my blog readers are getting the preview!

Walk 2020 Video.... big thanks to our supporters!



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