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

September 20, 2018

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in September of 2002. This was quintessential Mattie! A boy on the go!!! Mattie was never the kind of kid who was glued to a TV or an electronic device. Which made it very easy to parent him in that sense. However, on the other hand, Mattie had two modes.... ON and OFF. When he was on, he held you accountable to keep him engaged, stimulated, and challenged. Mattie made Peter and me rise to the occasion everyday for 7 years.  


Quote of the day: Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
~ Andrew Carnegie


I received my birthday gift today from Peter. We used to have a MMCF license plate on our old car. However, when we tried to put that tag on our current car, the DC DMV said that the MMCF plate was already taken!!! No kidding, it was taken by us. 

However, in typical DC fashion there was no way out of that quagmire. 
So instead, Peter made me a completely new plate and it highlights Mattie! There is no ambiguity about this plate, unlike with MMCF, where someone may not know what it stands for. 

In any case, Mattie is always with us, even when on the road! We nicknamed our car the Rubster, but in all reality it is the Mattie Mobile now!




The license plate and walking Sunny were the highlight of my day! I spent the rest of the day glued to the computer, managing multiple Foundation events and working on our September newsletter. Our candy drive has gotten so large, that we have now moved the operation to a storage unit (the size of a garage) in Arlington, VA. I put together an electronic sign up request for candy sorters today and I will begin to advertise it on our newsletter and social media. Check it out..... especially if you love and want to sort candy. Keep in mind that the candy goes to:

  1. Children's Hospital at Sinai, Baltimore, MD
  2. Children's Inn at NIH, Bethesda, MD
  3. Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
  4. DC Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation, Merrifield, VA
  5. Hackerman-Patz House, Baltimore, MD
  6. HSC Pediatric Center, Washington, DC
  7. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
  8. Pediatric Specialists of Virginia (PSV), Falls Church, VA
  9. Ronald McDonald House, Washington, DC
  10. Ronald McDonald House, Falls Church, VA
  11. Ronald McDonald House, Baltimore, MD
  12. Special Love, Winchester, VA
  13. Cornerstones, Reston, VA
  14. Covenant House, Washington, DC
  15. Embry Rucker Community Shelter, Reston, VA
  16. Nourish Now, Rockville, MD
  17. United Community Ministries, Alexandria, VA


​Sign up to sort candy: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0a48aca82aa7fc1-mattie

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