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, 2019

Monday, October 28, 2019

Monday, October 28, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken on Halloween of 2004. This was Mattie's third Halloween and by that point, he absolutely understood what Halloween was about! We went shopping for his costume together and we both gravitated to Winnie the Pooh. We both loved Pooh stories and this costume was soft and not itchy. Which were required qualities of any Mattie costume! I think he made the cutest Pooh around. 








Quote of the day: Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. Judith Olney


Another beautiful weather day in Washington, DC. Which of course inspired me to take a walk to the National Mall with Sunny. Sunny LOVES the Mall. In one of the tidal pools is the resident Great Blue Heron. He is always there!
Around our complex, new flowers were planted for Fall. I LOVE pansies and to me the orange flowers scream out.... MATTIE MIRACLE!
It begins! Today we packed up our car with all our candy bins! Even empty bins are very heavy. We store the bins at a friend's house. But unfortunately where the bins are stored is not where we host the candy drive. So it was a day of running around and set up.  

Our friend Ali has an amazing two story garage. This is the perfect space for the candy drive. 

Get the picture? Literally candy comes in by the front of the garage door and volunteers sort the candy into the orange bowls you see on the tables. Once sorted into ziploc bags, the bags then go into bins. Quite the system. 

More of the sorting process!
Can you see all the bins stacked and on the floor behind the sorting tables? It is hard to believe but within a week, the garage will be FULL of candy!
Bins and more bins! So how do we know Ali? Well Ali is the daughter of my "dear" friend Margaret. Margaret was Mattie's preschool teacher and a devoted Mattie Miracle supporter. In fact, it was Margaret who secured our FIRST corporate sponsorship for the Walk. I am saddened that Margaret died in 2014 from ALS. But her daughter, Ali has picked up where her mom left off. Rather a beautiful tribute to the memory of Mattie and Margaret. 

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