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

January 16, 2021

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2006. Mattie was four years old and part of our family holiday tradition was to go to the US Botanical Gardens. They always had amazing festive flower displays and sculpted models of DC buildings out of plant materials. Mattie and I posed in front of the US Capitol! Peter and I haven't been back to the Gardens at Christmas time since Mattie died. 


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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 23,707,002
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 395,195

I got up at 4am this morning, in order to get showered, dressed, made my mom breakfast and then left for the airport at 5:30am. This as my take off photo out of LA! It was another glorious sunny day! 

Not only did I go through a metal detector at the airport, but I went through the 360 scan as well as a pat down! Then TSA also screened passengers a second time right before boarding the plane to DC. So I could feel the heightened security even before returning home. 
Beautiful from the air! I had the blessing of having NO ONE next to me. Which was nice because I really need 4.5 hours to unwind, rest, read, and be on my own time schedule. 
Classic DC! Grey and overcast. We get MORE grey days than anything else. 
Our home is surrounded by the National Guard, who each are carrying automatic weapons. Am I in the USA? 
Fencing everywhere!
Surrounded by military trucks and National Guard. 
Outside our bedroom window. Peter says its impossible to sleep at night with lights and noise!
A greeting from Miss Indie!
An anxious pooch! Wants to know what on earth happened to me!???

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