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

May 27, 2018

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2009. Mattie was home recovering from his third major surgery. I can't tell you how many pink bins like this we had from the hospital, as you get one practically with each admission. What was it for? To catch vomit! As on chemotherapy the volume of fluid that can be expelled is not small. In any case, these bins made wonderful toys when they were in use. Mattie loved to fill them with water, and use them for water play. Since I despised Sponge Bob, the TV character, this inspired Mattie to LOVE him even more. So he would create little replica Sponge Bob's and in this particular case, Sponge Bob (who was literally made out of a sponge), was going to go swimming in Mattie's pool!


Quote of the day: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris



Peter and I bought vegetable plants for our neighbor yesterday and today, we went to plant her garden for her. Given that she is older and still recovering from a fall, we decided to help. 





This is a view of our deck from Mattie's bedroom window. Which is now my view from my desk! To clean up this space after winter, is always hard. As it involves planting and painting. But when it is done, things always look better. Well that is until you open our shed (the closet behind the BBQ)!

After planting our neighbor's garden, Peter decided to tackle our shed. This is what our shed looked like. It was the catch all for supplies and things. 
This is actually a big space to store things! But I haven't seen it cleaned out in a while. 
We purged a lot of things and this is the final product. Can you see Mattie's yellow truck? There are some things that Mattie played with outside that I still can't part with. Needless to say, it will be wonderful to open the shed now without things falling out on us. 
Peter said this was his best friend today! Our dumpster. We are lucky to have access to dumpsters in our complex. It makes throwing out junk very easy, and basically everything we tossed which was not salvageable went into the recycling dumpster.

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