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

March 11, 2015

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2009. I will never forget that particular evening. The hospital gave Mattie special tickets to the circus. Box seats to be specific! We had a private box all to ourselves and literally this was our first time visiting the circus. Peter and I hadn't seen the circus since we were children either, so in all reality it was a novel experience for all of us. That evening, Peter and Mattie went around to the shops and Mattie got a few novelty items....things that glowed or lit up. To this day, the twirling thing that was sitting in Mattie's lap is still sitting in his room on display. 


Quote of the day: Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. ~  Charles H. Spurgeon


Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2009. Mattie had died that September, and that was my first Christmas without him. Next to me was my 85 year old friend, Mary. Mary had just lost her husband in October of that year, so it was her first Christmas without him. In a way Mary and I were both traumatized that holiday season and it was through our losses we became friends. 

When Mattie died, I began to spend a lot of time with Mary because her husband was quite ill and since I had just helped Mattie die, I was quite skilled at it. I also did not need much sleep back then. My body was conditioned on needing only about three hours or so of sleep a night. I managed like this for over a year. It is absolutely remarkable what the body can become conditioned to! It was through helping Mary's husband, that I also got to know Mary very well. But Mary and I also bonded over the fact that she lost a son to cancer. 

I am posting this photo of me with Mary tonight because today marks the one year anniversary of her death. It is hard to imagine that an entire year has gone by already. I do not know where the time has gone, because it seems like just yesterday she were here. Throughout this entire winter, I have remembered Mary. I do this each day when I look out my window and I see the garden hooks I bought. These hooks hold several bird feeders which I got for her toward the end of her life.... in hopes she could see them and watch the birds feeding off of them. Now when I see the birds stop by and visit the feeders, perched in Mattie's memorial garden, I also think of Mary. 

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