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

January 13, 2019

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in January of 2005. I had wanted to do a holiday themed activity for Mattie's preschool class. When I mentioned this to Margaret, Mattie's teacher, she suggested I wait until January and then do gingerbread houses with the kids. Sounded good in theory, but I never made a gingerbread house before from scratch. So I had a steep learning curve, along with making royal icing, purchasing candy and so forth. I landed up making two houses for the classroom and the kids had a ball. In fact, all the classrooms at the school got to come in and participate. Mattie got to take the houses home with him, and you can see that made him happy. 


Quote of the day: Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Vista M. Kelly



It has been snowing in Washington, DC since yesterday. It is still coming down this evening. I am grateful that Peter took Sunny out yesterday and today. Sunny doesn't seem to mind the cold or the snow. Unlike me! 

Notice what Sunny was up to.... looking for squirrels! As if it was any routine day. 
The streets and sidewalks appear to be a mess around us, which will make for an interesting start to the work week. 
Peter tells me people were walking in the streets, because the sidewalks were a mess. 
Sunny was walking on a sidewalk. Or what used to be a sidewalk. 
I spent the entire weekend working on Mattie Miracle's 10th anniversary video. In addition, I am trying to brainstorm how to do our Foundation presentation at Mattie's school on January 22. Given this is not an age group I am comfortable working with, it makes the planning of this presentation difficult. 

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