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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 23, 2017

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2008. This was our last Thanksgiving with Mattie. His school counselor brought him this cute turkey hat, and Mattie put it right on his head, and of course I snapped a photo! To me this photo is priceless, and we are thankful that our Facebook friend, Tim took this photo and transformed it into this masterpiece. What I love about this is it helps to represent the important part of our family missing at the table today..... Mattie!


Quote of the day: Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ~ Henry Van Dyke


I can not remember the last time we celebrated Thanksgiving in our own home. Typically Peter and I are traveling to family. Not that I haven't cooked Thanksgiving dinner before, on the contrary I have done it many times, but typically not in our own kitchen. So it was a bit of an adjustment for Peter and I, but we are a good team, and ended with a tasty product!
This is what our table looked like today. Notice Mattie's Mr. Sun painting was right in the mix watching over our table. 
This was a photo I captured today around our table, right before we ate dinner. With us was Peter's parents, our friends Koseth and Cesar, and their 18 month old daughter, Charlotte. Charlotte is our God daughter. 
This is a close up view of my dinner plate. The funny part about the Fall season is prior to having Mattie, I really disliked pumpkin. However, this was something Mattie LOVED to eat, and as such I learned to appreciate pumpkin. Which is why, for dessert we made a pumpkin cake with cinnamon/cream cheese frosting. 

On the menu tonight was:
Turkey
Gravy made from scratch
Cranberry sauce
Apple/cherry stuffing
Sweet potato souffle with marshmallows on top
Ginger carrots
String beans with mint


Peter and I bought Charlotte some gifts today. She absolutely LOVED them and it was great to see her animated, getting to know us better, and learning more about her personality and interests. 

For course, regardless of what we do, or what our day entails, it is always very evident what is missing in our lives and just how different our lives are from others. 

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