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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

July 26, 2014

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Saturday, July 26, 2014


Tonight's picture was taken around July 25th of 2009. The cake came from Linda, Mattie's child life specialist. She wanted Mattie to be able to celebrate my birthday, so she got him a cake to give to me. Mattie enjoyed celebrating and I remember when Peter's birthday approached Mattie would always help me bake something. Mattie got into the spirit of the event and most importantly in acknowledging the other person in his life. He seemed to understand the importance of that at a young age. 






Quote of the day: I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. ~ Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry


Peter and I are back in DC. It was such a quick trip, it feels like we just left in a way. This morning we walked around the Boars Head Inn property and I took some photos of what I have been looking at the past two days. So these amazing crape myrtles graced our balcony on the second floor. These are the beautiful pink sightings I had when I opened our balcony door. 



From the balcony, we could see this beautiful lake. It truly was a very tranquil and picturesque place to unwind. The birds were singing and I wish there was room in the Inn for us this weekend. I would have stayed to try to relax more. But literally every room was taken this weekend. Which is why we headed home today. 



The flowers around the Inn were stunning, as you can see this bank of Black Eyed Susan's!












I snapped this photo because to me this looked like a bridge out of a Monet painting!


















After we said goodbye to the Inn, we went to walk in Historic Downtown Charlottesville. The downtown area is lined with shops and restaurants. We walked for about an hour and then also went through the campus of the University of Virginia. The University that Thomas Jefferson founded and originally designed himself. I could see how a part of the campus had a very Monticello-esque feeling to it!


On our drive home, on Route 29, we passed an ice cream store that caught my attention. It was packed with cars in the parking lot! But what was noteworthy was the name and its signage! The MOO THRU! Here is what I found out about the Moo Thru from its website, "the ice cream is made from only the freshest ingredients. The milk used in Moo Thru ice cream comes from our own prize winning grass fed Holstein herd grazed on a farm along the banks of the Rappahannock River about a mile from the Moo Thru." Being a cow affectionato, to me this ice cream store is worth stopping at the next time we head down to Charlottesville.  


The other noteworthy sighting on our car trip is corn for as far as the eye can see. It is a glorious sight! 


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