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 21, 2015

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Tonight's composition was created by our Facebook friend, Tim Beck. Tim creates 
magnificent pieces of photographic art for so many parents who lost their children to cancer. Tim surprised me with this one today. I have to be honest when I first saw this photo, I did not remember taking it or even the context of where it was taken. But I kept thinking and thinking and then I remembered! I did not take this photo of Mattie, his babysitter, Emily did! She snapped this photo of Mattie while he was visiting her apartment. I also did not recognize the pose, because when Emily took the photo Mattie was upside down in her chair. But Tim played around with the photo to make it seem like Mattie was integrated in this gold heart. The original photo is below. 


October 2006










Quote of the day: Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
Christine Todd Whitman


Though I am well aware of the pain I am in, that does not prevent me from walking, doing and accomplishing things! In fact, today was a full day of chores for us. Peter took our remaining candy that we had sorted in our home, which was about 700 pounds of it, and drove it to our friend Ann's house. Ann is storing the candy until Mattie's school comes to pick it up, and then I am going on a school bus on December 1 to make the last three remaining deliveries! This bus will have about 3,000 pounds of candy in it and remember I have already delivered 2,000 pounds SO FAR before my surgery!!!

It is turning cold and I can see my fellow sparrows are looking for birdseed. I have fed the birds since Mattie was a baby! I am quite sure we have many of the same birds that visit us year to year. Because they know our pattern and where we place our feeders! It is almost like they are homing pigeons, returning for the winter. In any case, feeding the birds are the only highlight of my winter. I love watching them, their patterns, and so forth. It keeps me engaged with nature, which I find peaceful and connects me with Mattie.  



Tomorrow, Peter and I head to Los Angeles to visit my parents. Not only for Thanksgiving, but to celebrate my mom's special birthday, which falls on Thanksgiving, November 26th! 

In the midst of getting ready for our trip, I am happy to say that the smell of candy is dissipating from our home. Instead, I can now admire our lovely Christmas Cactus which has decided to bloom!

Not to mention our wonderful Butterfly Ginger Lily plant. This plant produces flowers that DON'T disappoint! It is the flower that keeps on giving since it has multiple buds that unfurl at different times. So this intoxicating fragrance is traveling around our home, and despite it being cold outside, it is tropical inside for us! 

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