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

December 11, 2020

Friday, December 11, 2020

Friday, December 11, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in Christmas of 2003. This was Mattie's second Christmas! By that point, he was a live wire and running around all over the place. So the only way to get holiday photos of him was to strap Mattie into a shopping cart at Lowe's or Home Depot. That year, we dressed him in his holiday sweater and started snapping photos of him in the holiday display aisle of Home Depot. Look at Mattie's expression of wonder as he looks up at all the lights and displays. This wasn't the photo that made it onto the front of our holiday card that year, but nonetheless, it is a great photo. 


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

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 15,782,055
  • number of people who died from the virus: 294,144


It is now 6pm, and I haven't moved from my computer all day. I have been glued to it since 9:30am, when I had a licensure board meeting. I am worn out and I truly do not like virtual meetings and conversations! I feel they are grueling and awful for one's physical and mental health. Therefore, I am making this is a short entry tonight, in hopes that tomorrow is another day!


1 comment:

Cheryl said...

You need a day off to sleep and just veg out! I hope you can have a slow day tomorrow with just napping, taking a walk, and getting some take out! You've been going 100 miles an hour for weeks. It's okay to take a day and just breathe again. I'm keeping you in my prayers.
Love you!

Cheryl