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

May 5, 2019

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2008. We took Mattie to Calvert Cliffs in Maryland. This is a special kind of nature park, because first you have to walk about a mile through the woods to get to the shore line. However, once you do though this is the surprise. A lovely little beach on the Chesapeake Bay. This beach is known for finding shark teeth fossils. Mattie and Peter would comb through the sand looking for hours. They were always successful! Every time Mattie came home with teeth, I would put them in a bag. The bag is quite full and I still have it after all these years. 


Quote of the day: Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes 


I would say that Peter and I had a very productive day today. Unlike yesterday, I actually got out of our home. Though it was for running chores, it beat non-stop work like yesterday. 

When we got home this afternoon, we wrapped 10 out of the 12 raffle baskets. We are like an assembly line, as we have wrapped baskets now for ten years. We got it down to a science and I have concluded that staging the baskets (what I did yesterday) is much worse than wrapping them. But then again, I had Peter's help today. Otherwise, wrapping these things with just two hands is complicated and takes MUCH longer. It goes better with team work. 

Once we get all 12 wrapped, I will post a better photo. Which will showcase these baskets. I am still waiting for some items to come in, which is why I am on hold with wrapping the last two baskets. 
Here is a listing of the 12 baskets, and then a link on-line to purchase tickets. The great thing about our raffle is you can buy tickets but you do not need to be present at our event to win. 

1) Washington Nationals Tickets
2) Dining Around Town
3) Washington Capitals Tickets
4) Lego Collectibles
5) SCOUTing for the Perfect Bag
6) Wish Upon a Star
7) One of a Kind T-Shirt Quilt
8) Apple Techie
9) Money Tree
10) Everything Wine
11) Coffee BUZZzzz
12) Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Tickets (These can't be sold on-line, only available on the day of the event!)

To purchase raffle tickets and read the description of each basket..... click here!
Today's fundraising thermometer reads..... $85,886 (86%)

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