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

October 8, 2020

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2003. Mattie was a year and half old. This was typically how Mattie watched a video or TV show. He was the ultimate multi-tasker. As he had to be busy moving or doing something, but was still following along with what was on the screen. We kept all of Mattie's video tapes under the TV. As you can see, Mattie was taking out all the boxes. He then would stack and play with them. The only thing on the TV screen that would stop Mattie in his tracks and get his full attention was Elmo from Sesame Street. Mattie could be somewhere else in our home, but as soon as he heard Elmo's voice, he came running to the TV. 


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

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 7,589,353
  • number of people who died from the virus: 212,466


Last night before I went to bed, a felt a migraine coming on. But in addition to the headache, the area around my right eye had a stabbing pain. Unfortunately, the pain continued today. I would call the pain, excruciating, and it is more reminiscent of my one time experience with a cluster headache. Mainly because the pain is concentrated on one side, is around one eye, and the pain is ten times worse than a migraine. My issues are so significant today, that I can't spend much time reading anything or on the computer. Things were so bad that I went outside on our balcony with Sunny and both of us were lying on the ground. I needed fresh air and no other noise. 

Sunny went for his monthly grooming today. After that we took him for a walk around Huntley Meadows. A park Mattie used to love. 
Sunny was so excited to explore new territory, that he was practical running through the woods. 
Huntley Meadows is known for its birds. Do you see this cute woodpecker on the tree?
There is an amazing boardwalk at Huntley Meadows. Unfortunately dogs are not allowed on it. So I went out a few steps to take photos. But Sunny wasn't happy being left behind. 
It's a bird's paradise. I went out on the boardwalk to snap a photo of this Great Blue Heron. 
The water was filled with Willets, which are relatively large sized sandpiper birds. 
A Mattie favorite! Turtles were everywhere, with their heads up enjoying the beautiful sunshine. 
The boys were left behind! 


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