Mattie Miracle -- 16 Years of Service

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

May 29, 2021

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2008. I remember this day like it were yesterday. It was right after a full year of kindergarten, and we met up with Mattie's girlfriend, Charlotte and her mom, Ellen. We were waiting to take the children on a Georgetown Canal Boat ride. This wasn't a staged photo, this was naturally just two friends sitting side by side enjoying each other's company.


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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 33,251,717
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 594,304

Despite getting up at 6:30am, it took me a while to get it together! We were on the road by 9am headed to Boston. Peter and I are both exhausted as he flew home yesterday from a business trip to Nebraska. Meanwhile, I have been working around the clock, and literally if I stop moving, I start falling asleep!

It is a frigid weather weekend on the East coast. With rain, dampness, and it feels like it is in the 40s. I snapped a photo of us driving over the Delaware Memorial Bridge. 

On the NJ Turnpike, all of the  overpasses were displaying the American Flag, in recognition of Memorial Day. 
It took us about four hours to drive from DC to NYC. Which wasn't bad! Whenever we drive passed NY, I send a text to my lifetime friend, Karen! Who virtually waves. 
Sunny was highly anxious throughout the entire car ride. He was pacing back and forth on the back seat. At several points in our trip, the traffic was bumper to bumper. At which point, Peter opened the back window and Sunny was sniffing the breezes! 
It took us 9 hours to drive to Boston! It was a very very long journey! We hit lots of traffic in Connecticut and I would say this is where the majority of our slow downs occurred. 
The famous Boston Big Dig, created this nightmare. At one time, you could drive above ground, through the heart of the city. Now, they moved vehicle traffic below and created a park above, where the roads used to be. The Park is definitely lovely, but this underground tunnel system is like a cavernous race track! NOT a fan!
One of the by products of the Big Dip however is this cable stay bridge. I like the Zakim Bridge and I am happy we could drive through the city on the way to Peter's parents house. At one time, I lived here to go to graduate school, so it was nice to take a trip down memory lane.  

Posted by The Brown Family (DC) at 10:58 PM

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