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 6, 2020

Friday, November 6, 2020

 Friday, November 6, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken on Halloween of 2008. Mattie celebrated the day twice. Once at the hospital and the second time, walking around Alexandria, VA with his preschool buddy, Zachary. Sitting next to Mattie is Sally, the story lady. Sally was a class act. She knew how to bring a story to life and she excelled at finding ways for children and their family members to get involved in acting out the story. By our involvement, we were transported for just a little while from living life with cancer. On Halloween, as you can see Sally came dressed up and entertained the children. Mattie LOVED Sally, and that was high praise, because he did not relate to all the volunteers!  


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

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 9,685,815
  • number of people who died from the virus: 235,601


This fellow is Tim! He works at Mattie's lower school campus. He is our fantastic candy helper on the campus and makes a hard job much easier for us. Every year, Mattie's school contributes candy to our Post Halloween Drive. Of course this year with COVID, our Candy Drive doesn't look the same. Yet supporters are still donating! They understand that candy must be in its original sealed vacuum packed bag. 

This morning, Peter met up with Tim. Tim collected all the candy that was donated at the Elementary School and consolidated it into a bin and boxes for us. Instead of us running around the different buildings at school, Tim does the leg work for us. A real God sent, and drives his cart up to our car! We need to clone people like Tim! 



It was a beautiful day in Washington, DC! Sunny absolutely enjoyed his walk on the Island. Deer were every where! Can you see mom and baby? 
 



Posted by The Brown Family (DC) at 6:14 PM

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