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 3, 2020

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2006. Mattie was four years old. That day, Peter took Mattie to Target. Together they picked out his first bike with training wheels. As well as this cute red helmet. By that afternoon, they had the bike assembled and Mattie was on it and riding around in our commons area. 


Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 1,154,621
  • number of people who died from the virus: 67,451


This was my morning view! Peter was outside on our balcony with Indie and Sunny! Sunny loves the balcony, because there is a lot of bird and squirrel action in the trees. Indie isn't usually allowed out on the balcony. So today was novel for her, and she took to it like a duck to water. 
Meanwhile, this was what Peter's hair looked it. It was growing like a weed. Totally out of control and unmanageable. So I performed my first haircut on him today! This is the before photo!
Here is the after photo! I joked, that I could add this skill to my resume!
We went to the National Mall for our usual walk. Since the President is talking from the Lincoln Memorial tonight, parts of the Mall were totally gated off and surrounded by police. Yet there was still plenty of space to walk around, see people, and appreciate fresh air and greenery.  
Peter snapped this artistic photo of the sun and the Washington Monument. 
My priceless pooch! Happy to see me after we got back from a long walk. 
I call this Mattie's rhododendron. In our commons area we planted many trees, bulbs and bushes. We planted them in an area where Mattie used to pile his sticks, branches and other finds from our nature walks together. To me this area is now Mattie's memorial garden. The blooming of the rhododendron in this garden, always falls around Mattie's birthday!

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