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Thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive!

Dear Mattie Blog Readers,

It means a great deal to me that you take the time to write and to share your thoughts, feelings, and reflections on Mattie's battle and death. Your messages are very meaningful and help support me through very challenging times. I am 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 have stopped writing on September 9, 2010. However, like my journey with grief there is so much that 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 me, and most importantly thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive.


As Mattie would say, Ooga Booga (meaning, I LOVE YOU)! Vicki



A Remembrance Video of Mattie

May 13, 2021

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2006. Mattie was four years old! When Mattie was in preschool we transitioned him from a crib/day bed to a big boy twin bed. Mattie loved his bed and he also loved that he got to pick out his sheets! This particular set was of Bob the Builder, a show we all used to love watching together.


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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 32,841,406
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 584,276


I feel like I am on absolute overload. All I wanted to do today was lie down! It never happened. Even reading a paragraph is exhausting. I am still feeling side effects from the COVID vaccine, and today's new one is an earache. I never get earaches, not with seasonal allergies or migraines. But it is annoying on top of exhaustion. 

There is nothing fun about buying a house! We are inundated with financial paperwork and today's winner was a 50 page Home Owner Association document, which we had to read and respond with questions by Friday. Honestly! I am okay with guidelines and regulations of homeowners, because I know what happens without them. Yet because it is written in legalese, there are many questions that result. 

I thought the donations would be trickling in this week. But I am still swamped with processing contributions. Definitely a wonderful problem to have, but I feel like I am drowning in tasks, responsibilities, and issues.


Today's thermometer reads: $111,897. There are 200 people registered to Walk, 17 Walk teams, and 464 raffle tickets sold!

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