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 28, 2015

Monday, September 28, 2015


Monday, September 28, 2015

I posted a video of Mattie tonight instead of a picture! This video was taken in September of 2008. Mattie was two months into his chemotherapy treatment, and hadn't undergone any of his surgeries yet. Mattie loved music and I was videotaping him as he was sitting by the piano and composing his own piece. He knew I was behind him but he did not realize I was capturing his music on my phone. Toward the end of his composition, you will see that he turns around to look at me because our land line phone was ringing and he most likely wanted to know why I wasn't answering it! So while playing he let out with the pronouncement... "the phone is ringing!"


Quote of the day: You don't get over it, you just get through it. You don't get by it, because you cant get around it. It doesn't get better, it just gets different. Everyday grief puts on a new face. ~ Wendy Feireisen


Yesterday afternoon, my friend Mary sent me this photo of her in front of Mattie's memorial tree with her daughters Abby and Emily. Mary and I were fellow moms at Mattie's preschool and her girls attended the school while Mattie was there. I have to say that I am NOT USED to other people visiting Mattie's tree and also receiving a photo of this special moment. Nonetheless, it meant a lot to Peter and me, when we saw this on Facebook! It is important for the next generation to remember Mattie and to keep his memory alive..... by visiting the tree, this helps to accomplish just that. 




We had the celestial trifecta last night! A full moon, a perigee (moon is closest to the earth) and a lunar eclipse! Next this will occur is in 2033. Mattie Moon was in his glory last night! Peter was outside taking photos and our neighbor with a telescope was outside in our commons area having a stargazers party with fellow neighbors!




Spectacular views of the 'Blood Moon,' (which takes its name from the reddish hue the moon takes as Earth's shadow passes over it) were seen by some last night! Not us in DC because of cloud cover, but this photo was sent to me by my cousin Maria who lives in Connecticut. 




The intense clouds last night, and yet the moon shone brightly through it!














Peter captured part of the Lunar Eclipse! If Mattie were with us, he would have really LOVED this site. Since the last time such a trifecta occurred was in 1982, before Mattie was born! 

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