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

December 7, 2023

Thursday, December 6, 2023

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2005. We went to Boston for Christmas to spend it with Peter's family. While there, it snowed! We took Mattie for a walk by the pond and that trip he got to play in the snow, sled, and even build a snowman. Mattie gravitated to the colors red and orange, which is therefore no surprise that these colors now represent Mattie's Foundation. 


Quote of the day: Here’s the thing: every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can’t flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn’t. ~ Megan Devine


It was another whirlwind of a day. It is 9:30pm, and I am still working on one thing or another. I took my dad to the doctor this morning, to check his A1C. It is my hope that we have his sugar under control and he doesn't need to be on diabetes meds. As every med he has tried so far has produced horrific side effects. 

After the appointment, I got my parents back in the car and then I took them out for soup. Once home, Sunny wanted attention, and after dealing with laundry and other chores, Sunny and I went for a walk. While walking, he finally had a bowel movement, and I was able to collect a specimen to bring back to the vet today. More running around. I came home and worked on bill paying and other issues, and then by 7pm, I scrambled to make dinner. 

Of course what I know is tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, will be more of the same!

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