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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

November 14, 2012

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Wednesday, November 14, 2012


Tonight's picture was taken on November 13, 2007, Peter's  birthday! Mattie always liked to bake a cake to celebrate such an occasion. This photo captured happier times.





Quote of the day: Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your modus operandi and change your world. ~ Annie Lennox


Today was the last candy collection day. I expected perhaps a bag or two, but to my surprise there was more delivered and a ton to carry and sort. When we finally get the total sorted, I will take a picture with the bags so you can see the significance of this candy drive. It is almost hard to believe how much candy we are talking about!



Mattie's school has a brownie troop. One of the candy pick ups today was the contributions from this troop. Which was significant! The creativity of the kids however was very touching. On one of their candy collection boxes you can see a picture of Mattie with Patches. In addition, the children covered all the lollipops with white tissue and then they drew a face on each tissue. So the covered lollipops look like ghosts. You can see them in the box.
 

On the majority of candy bags the children gave us are beautifully drawn hand colored pictures. Don't you just love this pumpkin!?

Many of the candy bags say, "for Mattie." The children in this brownie troop never met or knew Mattie. Yet their troop leaders read the blog and know fellow parents at Mattie's school who did know Mattie. When the children wrote "for Mattie" on their bags, what they meant was this candy was given in honor of Mattie. This troop's kindness meant a lot to me because the pictures illustrate that Mattie's story has been shared and his memory remains alive in this group of children.

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