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

June 22, 2018

Friday, June 22, 2018

Friday, June 22, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2009. Mattie went to visit a friend, and she had this lovely parakeet. Mattie saw birds like this at Butterfly World in Florida, but typically he let Peter interact with the birds and he would just watch. In this case, my friend's bird liked Mattie. You can see Mattie's facial expression.... totally unsure and a bit scared, but he did it. As Mattie loved all animals. 



Quote of the day: You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.Jane Goodall


After working on the 2018 Walk & Family video this week, I am proud to say it is finished and uploaded to the internet. You can see it below. What a learning process it has been, but I am thrilled to know how to create custom videos on my own! Clearly I can say or write all sorts of things about the Walk, but there is something about seeing photo documentation that makes the event more tangible, real, and memorable for attendees and supporters. Hope this video makes you smile, as it does for us. 

Walk 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1lOehVDW_k


1 comment:

Kristen said...

I spotted our three guys! Great video, Vickie! You did an awesome job!