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 5, 2018

Thursday July 5, 2018

Thursday, July 5, 2018

This shot was taken in Duck, North Carolina, in July 2005. This was our third summer in a row taking Mattie and my parents down to the Outer Banks. By this time, Mattie had experienced the beach two times already, so on his third trip, he was getting to be quite the pro at taking it all in and enjoying the moment.

Quote:  "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important."  ~ Mary Kay Ash

Hello all,

It is Peter again posting. Vicki is still in Los Angeles helping her parents to prepare for the move out of their home they sold last month. Needless to say they have a lot to do, and in usual Vicki fashion, she has both a plan and is working herself into the ground to execute it. They move this weekend, and now with the house largely empty of personal effects (other than the pieces that take movers to move), they have checked into a hotel in Burbank. On Saturday the movers come to move the main contents, but mind you, Vicki has spent the last week packing and physically moving the more important items and personal effects herself into the home where her parents will be moving.  Needless to say, it has been a whirlwind for Vicki and I feel bad for her as she is stressed out and working like a maniac.

I include below some shots from yesterday of Sunny, who had been very interested in dinner plans and me working the grill.  Regardless, Sunny was able to score some steak last night, which always warms his heart.

The Sun man in action...trotting along in our commons areas... building up an appetite.

















 

Dinner on the grill...
















Sunny enjoying his small plate.




















A happy pooch with a fully tummy....


















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