Mattie Miracle 15th Anniversary Video

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 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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