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

August 29, 2014

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2007. Mattie was by the pool at our hotel in Coronado, California. The beauty of Mattie was he never stopped moving unless he was sick. He could have an absolutely full day of activity and yet continue moving up until bedtime. He was not a couch potato and he was not into video games, spending time in front of a computer, or a TV. Mattie was about connecting with the world, his environment, and others. 


Quote of the day: Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  ~ Booker T. Washington

It was an incredibly HOT day in Los Angeles! If you are in the shade it isn't bad, but as soon as you step foot in the sun, it feels like you are in an oven. Now I like the heat interestingly enough, but I guess I am not used to the dry heat of California. Humid heat is very different, it is a heat I am very used to in Washington, DC!

My parents and I had a full day today and by the afternoon, I took on more planting in their backyard and mulching. That may not sound too bad but in the heat that is definitely a feat and I feel like I got my exercise for the week!  

After yard work, I came inside and began baking cookies for a few Foundation supporters who live close by to my parents. They happen to like cookies, so this is my form of a personal thank you for the continued support for the work that I do!

To me chocolate chip cookies from scratch are the quintessential cookie. My maternal grandma always baked these cookies for me, so whenever someone wants a cookie from me, that is literally the cookie you are going to get! Of course that was a major problem between Mattie and I, since Mattie despised CHOCOLATE! Mattie even hated chocolate when I was pregnant. So much so that when I was pregnant, chocolate made me sick to my stomach and I couldn't eat it!!! Needless to say, I never baked Mattie a chocolate chip cookie. The macaroon recipe is something my mom and I came up with on our own. We tried a lot of people's recipes, and none of them worked for us. So we branched out on our own! The recipe we use is fail safe! You can't go wrong with it, and it produces a beautiful shaped macaroon EVERY time! The NO FUSS macaroon! My kind of cookie!

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