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

May 3, 2015

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2007. Mattie was five years old and in kindergarten. It was spring and we were enjoying time outside on our deck. We were a family who loved our deck, all of us... including Patches. All four of us would spend time together out there and each of us had a chair at the table, YES Patches too! She helped herself. 


Quote of the day: You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ~ Charles Bruxton


Today was another whirlwind, of working on Foundation walk posters, dealing with other Walk issues, and then also working on a Power Point presentation for next week's keynote presentation in New York City. This presentation is 90 minutes long, so this is substantial and requires brain power to put together. Brain power which I really do not have right now. I started this calendar year tired from writing book chapters in the summer of 2014, and I have yet to be able to catch my breath. This time of year is by far the worst with fundraising and planning the Walk. 

In addition to all this work today, I took a break and finished planting our deck with Peter!


I am signing off, but before I do I wanted to share another deck photo! All around us while we were planting were birds. We even had a cardinal visit with us this evening. Which was a lovely and special sighting. Not only do I view the cardinal as a symbolic sighting, but I remember how much Mattie loved cardinals because of their bright red color. 

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