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

July 27, 2014

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Tonight's picture was taken July on 23, 2008. This was the day Mattie was diagnosed with cancer. A day Peter and I will never forget. Our world was changed forever. That night we came home and Mattie asked if he could display Christmas lights on our deck. Now if cancer hadn't come into our lives, the most likely response would have been "NO!" But cancer put everything into perspective. So out came the lights and no matter how crazy it may have looked, we put up our displays. It brought cheer and color to our world. A world which had just collapsed around us. Though Mattie was only six years old, he was bright enough to know that great change and trouble were ahead. 


Quote of the day: Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ~ Khalil Gibran


When we visited Thomas Jefferson's Monticello this week, we bought a Butterfly flower plant in the gift stop. Thomas Jefferson cultivated so many different varieties of plants which is most likely why the gift shop features a whole garden area. In any case, it is no wonder that the butterfly plant caught my attention. These plants had all sorts of flying creatures around them! Particularly butterflies. I brought one home and planted it today next to the roses. We shall see when it blooms their lovely orange flowers if it attracts any monarch butterflies (which is what it is known to do!) in the city. 





We spent the entire day at home trying to relax and we also tended to our garden. Though this outdoor space is small in comparison to some gardens, we have a lot growing on it. All sorts of herbs and tomatoes. You wouldn't believe how many cherry tomatoes Peter can harvest every week. At least a whole colander full. To me it is a special treat and with Mattie's fountains going, it is a very tranquil place to sit right in the middle of the city! You may notice a tall green plant right next to the table and chairs (the right hand corner of the photo). This is the butterfly white ginger lily plant we brought back with us from the Elizabethan Gardens in the Outer Banks. It seems to be thriving and in fact it looks like it could produce flowers in August as promised. The Gardens told us that when this Lily flowers, the fragrance is intoxicating. The verdict is still out!

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