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

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2007. Mattie was having a playdate with his very good friend Zachary from preschool. These two friends were basically inseparable. They gravitated to each other from the very first day of school and remained close to each other even after they both went to different elementary schools. In fact, Zachary visited Mattie in and out of the hospital. As you can see from this photo, Mattie and Zachary had a Thomas train set running from one bedroom clear across the hallway to the next room. They both loved trains and could play with them for hours. When they got tired actually playing with them, they used to pretend they were trains, which was a riot a watch!


Quote of the day: It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves.Ralph Waldo Emerson



Peter and I went to Mattie's school today where the Walk will be held. In tow with us were the sample plastic cups we ordered. I have been searching high and low for the right cups that will fit in this chain link fence. Not just any cup will do! Most solo cups are too big and therefore can't be slotted through! I found these wonderful cups through a restaurant distributor. The great part about this is that they come in over 20 colors. Which is fabulous, because I need a different color cup for every one of our teams. At the moment we have 16 walk teams! 

I have always wanted to show walk progress around the track, but there is no score board or other visual. So it came to me one day. Why not use the fence! I thought of transforming the chain link into a score board using colorful cups. As team members walk a lap, each member can earn a cup to place in the challenge wall. The goal is to fill a portion of the designated wall by the time the event is over. This will hopefully encourage motivation and energy to walk. Also providing incentives, some competition, and having a DJ, we are hoping will also help! In any case, I am so happy we resolved the cup issue today. Meanwhile Peter has been estimating cups and how many to order for weeks now. This is no easy task to undertake and clearly once I order these cups, my goal is to recycle them from year to year. 

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