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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

March 31, 2023

Friday, March 31, 2023

Friday, March 31, 2023

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2004. Mattie was almost two years old and as you can see he and Peter were playing together on his alphabet mat. Mattie loved Peter's big umbrella and together they were imagining it was raining inside! Mattie was pointing at something, which clearly wasn't me. So I am guessing it was Patches, our calico cat, who caught his attention. 


Quote of the day: Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed. ~ Bob Riley


Yes I am highlighting a rock! You maybe asking yourself.... why???!!! 

Well I found this rock in front of my door, awaiting my arrival home. I knew exactly who it was from! It is from my 6 1/2 year old buddy who lives next door. He and his family recently moved in and for some reason he has taken a liking to me. 

Some days I find flowers, some days I find a pile of branches (as he helps me collect all the fallen sticks and branches in the front yard), and yesterday it was this rock. If you look closely it says.... 'To Family,' with a smiley face. 

I think it is so touching to receive these little gifts, that I am featuring this rock with our spring time flowers in the front hallway. I have found that some children are just born extra sensitive, maybe extra perceptive. Mattie was a bit like this, so naturally I always look for signs from Mattie and perhaps he is being channeled through this little boy next door. Mattie works in mysterious ways, so why not this way too?

I received several Foundation related emails today. One was from a charity group who wishes to partner with us. Our email communications have been going back and forth and I mentioned to her why it is more difficult for me now to take phone calls at this point in my life. I explained my caregiving role with my parents. What I wasn't expecting was a response that expressed deep appreciation, insight, and acknowledgment for the tough role I play. She was able to share her thoughts so candidly because she periodically provides care to her parents, when her sister (the primary caregiver) needs a break. I could tell immediately when reading her words that they were real and genuine, that she understood from personal experience and commented that she doesn't know how I find the time or energy for anything else! She gets a GOLD star, I don't know either but I do know that her email put me in a better mood. 

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