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

November 30, 2015

Monday, November 30, 2015

Monday, November 30, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2006. Mattie was four years old and doing one of the things he enjoyed to do.... paint things on the floor of our dining room. Sometimes Mattie would do hand and foot prints there and other times he would build wooden models and paint them. As you can see he built a dinosaur and was painting it that day. Mattie was always eager to take on a building project and to create! He could do all these activities for hours. Then he would incorporate his creations into his play schemes. Mattie was never boring. 



Quote of the day: And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for. Tessa Dare




The Los Angeles International Airport is ALL decked out for Christmas! There was this beautiful tree in the middle of the American Airlines terminal, there was Christmas music playing all over the airport, and what caught my attention was up over my head..... where the flags in this picture are located. 

A wonderful toy Christmas Train was chugging along. It was moving overhead, all around the perimeter of the tree! The train made choo choo sounds and I know if Mattie were with us, this train would have been very exciting to see!


Here is a close up of the train. Got to love the little polar bear sitting on top of the car in the back. 

We went from sunshine this morning in LA, to grayness and rain in DC. However, after a week away in which we celebrated Thanksgiving and my mom's milestone birthday, we can say that we are safely back in DC after a successful trip. 

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