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

February 9, 2014

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Sunday, February 9, 2014


Tonight's picture was taken in February of 2009. During that time period, Mattie seemed to love cupcakes. As you can see from this photo, he popped a mini cupcake into his mouth. But the story behind the cupcakes was the following..... Mattie wasn't eating much at that point in his treatment and we were also trying to encourage him to participate in physical therapy to relearn how to walk. The incentive system that I created for Mattie involved cupcakes. If he listened to Anna (his therapist) and tried his best in a session, then his reward was a cupcake. Between hospital admissions, I would go home and bake two dozen cupcakes and literally cart them with me to the hospital on admission day. I don't know where I got the energy to do this, but when it came to Mattie, I found the resources. 


Quote of the day: Sometimes you have got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. ~ Simi Ngr



I am still under the weather today and have remained in bed all day. Peter captured some photos today of our snow flurries. It was quite a beautiful sight to see but what you can't tell is on the wooden fence and within these bushes are many, many sparrows. Hundreds of sparrows visit our deck each day and grace our feeders. When they are not on our feeders, they perch themselves in our bushes. Though this is the commons area of our plaza, I call these bushes ours, because Peter and Mattie literally planted all of them together. 


This photo reminds me of the 12 days of Christmas..... two turtle doves, but instead there is no partridge in a pear tree here!

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