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 12, 2015

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 -- Mattie died 296 weeks ago today.

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2004. This was a classic Mattie move! Peter caught it on camera, which I am very happy about. Mattie used to put his cheek up to mine and then squeeze as tightly as he could. For a little person his grip seemed super strong, but I remember his skin to be incredibly soft! 



Quote of the day: No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge


The crazy pace continues! I feel like a rat on a thread mill. If one wanted to know what I do in any given day, it would be hard to describe, but I assure you it isn't pretty. It is one task after the other, after the other. It is almost sickening. It gets to the point that I am so programmed, it is hard to slow down and function on living, sleeping, or eating. Which is why post-Walk is also a major adjustment and let down if you will. 

This evening one of the things we worked on was designing this big poster display for our cup distribution table. Each walk team is assigned a cup color. Each time a team member completes a lap around the track, they earn a colorful cup that can be placed in the challenge wall, which is a chain link fence. The goal is to fill the challenge wall by the end of the walk. The team with the most number of cups in the wall by the end of the event, wins the challenge! 

When I talk about the challenge wall and sticking cups through it, this is an example of what I am talking about! It is my hope that this new walk concept motivates people to walk and engages folks this year. Clearly the team concept has taken off and has really helped us raise over $17,000 for the Foundation!

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