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

September 14, 2015

Monday, September 14, 2015

Monday, September 14, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken on September 7, 2008. It maybe unclear as to what you are looking at, but Mattie was in his hospital room dancing. He was dancing to a song that was composed for him by Peter's colleagues in Peru. The title of the song was, "My Little Child." Mattie loved the song so much that the music took over and he started to sway and dance to it. It was a moment not to be forgotten! With a large IV pole and tubes attached to him, Mattie still decided to express himself. You may also notice stacks of cardboard boxes behind the door. These weren't for storage, they were boxes that the hospital staff collected for him, so he could create and design with them. One of his favorite past times.  



Quote of the day: The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross




Mattie Miracle is participating in a facebook contest hosted by WTOP. This is the second year that WTOP is hosting a Click-For-A-Cause contest, that allowed qualified non-profits in the Washington, DC area to compete for votes. Like a popularity contest in a way. The non-profit who gets the most votes wins $12,000. Which is why Peter and I have generated a facebook and twitter campaign today. This was the first photo we posted on all three of our facebook sites. There will be a new photo for each of the 12 days that the contest runs. Our goal is to get our supporters and their friends to vote for us and then share the link to vote with family and friends. We need a chain reaction, or a grass roots campaign for this to work. I noticed that the top non-profits getting votes so far all have to do with animals! 

To vote, please go to the link below and tell others about it!

http://wtop.com/contests/click-for-a-cause-voting/?char=m


Our friend Tim Mooney sent us this photo today in honor of Day 6 of Orange Tie Week! I love this tie because it reminds me of Nemo from the Disney movie, "Finding Nemo." A fish that Mattie happened to like!

As for the update on the construction project on our deck...... it isn't over yet! I just called the foreman today, who promised that it would be done last Friday. Well guess what, it will be ANOTHER WEEK until it is over! That is two weeks dealing with this nonsense and I have had just about enough. Between the dust, noise, and lack of privacy, this was truly an awful time for them to do this project.  

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