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 2, 2019

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2002. It was Mattie's first Christmas and in his cute red onesie, he was doing what he loved best.... attempting to walk. Mattie never crawled and forget about tummy time. Mattie did not care for either, but at 8 months he desperately wanted the freedom to walk. 


Quote of the day: New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Mark Twain


Since Peter and I both came back home sick, we decided to board Sunny two more days until we could stabilize. Today we picked the boy up! 

Sunny was edgy and whining when he first got into the car. His whining was excitement to see us. The beautiful part about Dogtopia, where we board Sunny, is that they text message me daily updates on him while we are away. In addition, there is a webcam I can access on the internet to see Sunny for myself. 

Sunny goes on a hunger strike when we are away! They all have his number at Dogtopia and they try to coax him to eat with all sorts of goodies. 

Because I know Sunny hasn't been eating well, I brought him a doggie bowl with cut up ham from our New Year's Eve dinner. You can see that he had NO problem eating that. 
Within a few minutes, we went from anxious and stressed out dog to happy dog. Before coming home, we took Sunny for a walk at Episcopal High School. I just love the grounds on the campus, and so does Sunny. He was thrilled to be out and about and sniffed and marked everything in sight. 
Peter was playing with Sunny in the school's enclosed dog park. Sunny was having a great time running around and chasing Peter. 

















Sunny maybe 7 years old, but he can move like the wind. We joked that we had a power walk today with Sunny in the lead! 

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