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

December 1, 2019

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2008. Mattie was home between treatments and requested Chinese food. Since Mattie typically did not have an appetite and was hardly eating, whenever he requested food, we made sure to get it. I would say that Mattie went through certain food phases while on treatment, requesting such items as: vanilla milkshakes, chicken nuggets, big pretzels, potato chips, vanilla frosted donuts, cupcakes, and shrimp of all things. Keep in mind that Mattie did not eat many of these requested foods prior to his cancer diagnosis. 




Quote of the day: The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook, chop, braise and blanch. Then it’s gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sort of in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up. ~ Ted Allen


It was one of those cold, pouring and gray DC days today! Yet as any dog owner knows...... YOU  HAVE TO WALK THE DOG! Regardless of weather! We took Sunny back to Roosevelt Island. It was his Thanksgiving Day treat, as he has visited the Island three days in a row. 

As we pulled into the parking lot..... we were the only ones there! 
I had a feeling we would see a lot of wildlife as there were no people walking about. Can you see this big hawk sitting on the branch?
The peaceful sight from the boardwalk. 
We literally saw five deer on our walk! Sunny was barking and was ready to charge the deer. Fortunately we never let Sunny off leash, otherwise, we would have been running all over the woods today. 
Can you see the three deer? By the time we were finished from the walk we were all soaked and covered in mud. It was a messy but lovely walk. 

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