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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

October 5, 2015

Monday, October 5, 2015

Monday, October 5, 2015

Tonight's picture sent to me by my Facebook friend, Tim Beck. Tim created this composition of Mattie and surprised us with this wonderful gift. Tim produces these gifts for countless families, and as I told him, it is so special to see Mattie through his lens. Tim finds photos of Mattie on the blog and has a way of capturing them in beautiful tributes. Mattie loved leaves and the color orange. So this really resonates with me. In addition, on the easels are two things. One is a photo of Mattie which was taken when he was healthy. He was visiting Roosevelt Island and while on the Island found a crinkly hedge apple. Which intrigued him and it took it home with him. On the other easel was an abstract painting Mattie created in the hospital! Tim was concerned I wouldn't like the painting turned on its side, since I display it vertically in our living room. But as I said to Tim, the beauty of his abstract is that it works anyway you display it! 


Quote of the day: Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahlil Gibran

Today I met a friend in Alexandria and we had lunch near the pier in Old Town. Today was the first sunny day in a week, so it was a special treat. I snapped this photo because a boat by the name of the "Matthew Hayes" was docked. We took Mattie on this boat before and he loved it. Not to mention the fact that Mattie loved that boat because it had the same name as him! 


While on the Alexandria pier, I could look across the Potomac to Maryland and see the Capital Wheel in the distance. This is the same Wheel that turned GOLD for childhood cancer awareness month! 









On the other side of the pier, I could see the Capitol building in Washington, DC! It is like a bird's eye view of Maryland, Virginia, and DC from this spot! 










Mattie would have loved this picture of boats! Mattie's greatest wish was to be the captain of a boat! He always told people that he was saving his money to buy a boat. Many people thought he meant a toy boat, but he actually meant a REAL one! 

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