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

October 28, 2018

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2002. This was Mattie's first Halloween. He was six months old. I frankly think the pumpkin was bigger than he was. Of course Mattie did not go trick or treating that year, but I did want to acknowledge his first Halloween with us, so I put both him and the pumpkin together for this photo. 


Quote of the day: Candy is nature's way of making up for Mondays.Rebecca Gober



Peter and I created 8 collage type placards before I left for New York. We wanted to have photos that capture Mattie Miracle's activities on display at our upcoming event on November 8th. I am so glad we tackled this early and it was a nice surprise to see them this morning. We have a placard that highlights:

  1. Our child life services
  2. Our Item Drives
  3. Our Advocacy Work
  4. Our National Presentations
  5. Our Psychosocial Research
  6. Our Snack Carts
  7. Our Walk & Family Festivals
  8. Our work with students performing community service

We closed out the big storage unit we were renting for our candy drive today. We are grateful that our friend, Ali, has offered the use of her garage. So we relocated all the bins from the storage unit to Ali's garage and by the end of the week, tables, chairs, bowls, bags, and bins will be all set up to begin our first sorting event next Saturday. 

After moving bins, we took Sunny for a walk at Episcopal High School. It is my favorite place to walk with Sunny, because there is no traffic or congestion. It is a beautiful campus, with its own pond. A pond that as you can see attracts wild life.... this wonderful Great Blue Heron was just sitting there watching us walking by. 

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