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 19, 2020

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2002. In fact it was the first snow fall for the season and the very first snow Mattie ever saw! Mattie was 8 months old, and I wanted our family Christmas card cover to be special that year! After all, it was our baby's first Christmas. So when I saw the snow, I dressed Mattie up, put him in his exercise saucer and brought him out on our deck. This was "Santa Mattie!" I can't tell you how many photos Peter snapped that day, but out of all of them, this was the one that won out and was placed on our Christmas cards. 


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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 17,631,293
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 316,006


Peter and I had a 7am flight to Los Angeles today. Literally we were up at 3:45am to get ready, finished packing, and it was important to me to leave our home clean. Especially since I won't be there for a month. 

It was a full day it felt like by 7am. Newsflash the airport in DC and the plane were packed. Once on the plane, we were second in line for take off, when the pilot turned the plane around. We were headed back to the gate we had just left! Why? Turns out the plane needed more fuel and the cargo needed to be better balanced under the plane! Really? This was a new one for me, I never heard of this oversight before, but I am happy the pilot flagged it before we took off. 

Peter snapped some incredible photos in the sky. Some of the clouds remind me of waves in the ocean!
I felt we got a beautiful aerial view of our Country on this flight. 

Peter and I literally turned to each other mid flight and said.... wasn't this supposed to be a smooth flight? Our pilot set the expectation for no turbulence and it would be smooth flying! Ironic, since we literally had turbulence throughout the entire flight. 

This reminded me of a zebra!
To me it looked like cakes dusted with powdered sugar. 

To me this reminded me of photographs of earth taken from space. 
Amazing terrain.
When I begin to see these reddish rocks, I know we are approaching California. 
Looks like cracks in ice! 

It was a busy day of grocery shopping, doing chores, getting dinner, serving it, cleaning up, and the list goes on. I have come to conclusion that it is easier to cook from scratch than picking up food and having to reheat and serve it at home. I almost felt like it was double the work. 



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