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

January 30, 2018

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Tuesday, January 30, 2018 -- 437 weeks ago today.

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2002. Mattie was seven months old and as you can see sitting with me on the couch. We started reading to Mattie at a young age and he certainly loved the pictures and hearing me tell a story. Mattie had some favorite books, one of which was Goodnight Moon. Peter and I read this SO often, we almost had it memorized!


Quote of the day: But, instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine. ~ Marcel Proust


It seems to me that life gives us a whole lot of "somethings that we could hardly imagine." In the past few days, or I should say weeks, I have heard one nightmare cancer story after the other. I do think this clouds your mind and spirit after a while. I find ironically that I can help other families whose child has cancer. But when it comes to cancer impacting people I personally know, well this truly is different. Helping others that I don't know, is a satisfying feeling, and I find being one step removed, protects me from actually living the journey with them. However, when it's someone I know, I can visualize everything from how the person will react, and truly the day to day management of the disease. In these moments, of course I think about Mattie and what he endured. Not to mention us. Yet I remind myself that Mattie's journey has to be for a reason, and the reason is that I can personally assist others in ways that others can't! When people are running away, I tend to be walking toward!


I end tonight's posting with The Blue Moon! I literally saw this moon tonight, after leaving my friend's home. A close friend who was just diagnosed with cancer. I view this as a Mattie sign!!!

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