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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

February 12, 2015

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken on February 2, 2009. The lady in the photo with Mattie was Pam. Pam was a former student of mine. The sad part about this is that shortly after Mattie died, Pam died too. Pam came to visit us that day in the hospital. As you maybe able to assess, Mattie wasn't having a happy moment. There could be many reasons for this!!! One of which could be how he was physically feeling! Of course having to go through a hospital admission process was also not easy either. Just by looking at the photo I can tell that it was an admission day to the hospital. How do I know this? Because Mattie had real clothes on! When Mattie was in-patient he only wore pajamas from day to day. 


Quote of the day: Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ~ Jane Austen


Recently when I was in Los Angeles, my West Coast friend and avid blog reader, Diane, asked me about the sound of Mattie's voice. I post many photos of Mattie and even our videos that we post on the blog typically just have still photos timed to music. Rarely do our readers have a chance to hear Mattie's sweet voice. Which is a shame, since Mattie had a very cute, adorable, witty, and charming voice!

I think most people who have lost a loved one do find that listening to a loved one's voice is a much harder process than looking at just a photo. I find the sensory combination of a visual and auditory reminder of Mattie very difficult to face, which is why for the most part I do not look at any of our videos that we took of Mattie as he was growing up. 

With that said, tonight as I was looking for a photo to place on the blog I came across a file on my computer that I did NOT recognize that said..... "Mattie's voice on answering machine." I honestly had never seen this file before. It was if it was just calling out for my attention. I know I did not upload it to my files and I know it wasn't in this file location before I went to Los Angeles! So to some extent the file seemed to coincide with the conversation I just had with Diane. I don't believe in coincidence and therefore I knew that meant this file was destined for the blog!




When I saw the photo attached to this audio file, I knew right away this wasn't our answering machine! Instead, this was a message Mattie left on Peter's parent's answering machine. A message Mattie left for my father-in-law on his birthday. In July of 2013, Peter actually recorded this message on his iphone and recently placed it on my computer! It is a short message, but adorable and to the point. A true Mattieism! 

1 comment:

linda blohm said...

oh my ~ that is so precious ~