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

July 9, 2018

Monday July 9, 2018

Monday, July 9, 2018

This shot was taken in March 2005. Mattie was hamming it up with Vicki and wearing his Easter themed sunglasses because.... well, just because. That was Mattie. As you can see he loved his mommy and was having a good time playing. I can also tell we were in the midst of painting our home, as can be seen by the furniture pulled away from the walls and the blue painters tape on the left side of the photo.

Hello from Peter....
It was a typical Monday filled with work and chores and mundane tasks that a Monday typically supplies. At the end of the day (between the myriad of dog walks I took today), I popped out to the grocery store to pick up a few things, and what did I see? But a movie shoot in progress, right on Virginia Ave.

Vicki and I have seen them shooting in and around Foggy Bottom now for a number of months. In many cases, we see a street scene, and we know the setting is in the 1980s since all you see are 1980s model cars driving around on the streets, to be included in the shots as background and atmosphere. I am sure many of us watch movies that are set in earlier eras, and we probably rarely notice the period cars that appear in the background shots.  

Well tonight was another example of this happening. If you look closely at the shots, you can see all the cars are not from this era, but rather from several decades ago. So Foggy Bottom continues to an attraction for movies especially with iconic and identifiable buildings like the Watergate, the Kennedy Center, the State Department and with the backdrop of the Potomac River and the Washington Monument that can be seen down Virginia Avenue.













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