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 15, 2015

Thursday, May 15, 2015

Thursday, May 15, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2009. Mattie was standing next to Bob Weiman, the head of Mattie's lower school. Bob is also known as the "Magic Man" by my faithful readers. Bob visited Mattie often in the hospital and taught Mattie magic. Mattie loved it and gravitated to magic. They performed at the hospital together and even at the first Walk, which is why as a tradition there is still a magic show run by Bob at every Foundation Walk. In addition, you can be assured that this trick you see here is incorporated into the show. It is the peanut butter and booger trick, or as Bob calls it, the Mattie Brown trick. They learned and perfected it together. Of course anything with the title "booger" in it is a riot to a six year old! Magic empowered Mattie and it made him feel special. I think his smile says it all. 


Quote of the day: Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman


I am happy to report that as of tonight, the Foundation's Walk grand total is $61,000! Of which our Walk Teams have raised $19,000! It is an incredible achievement to have met our goal before the event. 


In addition, this evening we secured our 7th corporate sponsor for this year's walk! Thank you Voxiva for becoming a platinum sponsor! Voxiva enabled us to officially meet our $60,000 goal tonight! 


But here is the beautiful story. All of my posters and programs to promote our corporate sponsors at the Walk are already printed. Therefore there is no professional way for me to acknowledge our new corporate sponsor in the same manner at the event. This did not matter to Voxiva, because as their CEO told me.... it isn't about the acknowledgments, it is about supporting the cause. A cause their whole office is committed to, you see, because this is the company Peter works for. It was a very touching contribution tonight and I am thrilled that we are lucky to have 7 great companies standing behind our mission and who believe in what we are doing. 

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