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

May 16, 2014

Thursday, May 16, 2014

Thursday, May 16, 2014

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2008, during Grandparents Day at Mattie's School. This was a big event at the lower school, in which the kids get dressed up, classrooms are opened up for the grandparents to see the children's work, a lovely brunch is served on the lawn, and there is even a choir concert featuring every grade. I know all of this because I was a parent volunteer that day. I did not want to miss out on anything when Mattie was growing up, I don't know if it was a sixth sense or what, but looking back, I am so happy I made that decision. Otherwise, I would be filled with a lot of regrets now. When I look at this photo, we all imagined that there would be many more grandparent's days to come. I never would have guessed that this would be our first and last or worse, that two months later Mattie would be diagnosed with cancer. 


Quote of the day: Distance is not the thing that makes us suffer, it's missing someone that's always in your mind that really makes you suffer. Anurag Prakash Ray


I think tonight's quote says it all! It is the constant longing that haunts a grieving parent day in and day out. It is the absence of someone so special that can cause you at times to feel like you are losing your mind or that things just don't make much sense in the world. What is a given unfortunately is that no one truly understands or walks this journey with us. A grieving parent in many ways walks this path alone. Which somehow only exacerbates how awful the pain of missing someone so special is in the first place. 

It is now 12:30 in the morning and I can say I am so wiped out from Walk plans that I can't even string two sentences together. Which means therefore that I have to stop writing. My parents came into town today, Peter's come into town tomorrow, and my lifetime friend, Karen, arrives Saturday. This all signifies that the Walk is here whether I am ready for it or not! 


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