A Remembrance Video of Mattie

Thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive!

Dear Mattie Blog Readers,

It means a great deal to me that you take the time to write and to share your thoughts, feelings, and reflections on Mattie's battle and death. Your messages are very meaningful and help support me through very challenging times. I am 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 have stopped writing on September 9, 2010. However, like my journey with grief there is so much that 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 me, and most importantly thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive.


As Mattie would say, Ooga Booga (meaning, I LOVE YOU)! Vicki



June 6, 2020

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Saturday, June 6, 2020

 Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2004. Mattie was two years old. That day we drove to Connecticut to visit Peter's grandmother, who was in the hospital. We took Mattie to visit Gladys, and he actually handled the whole visit quite well. Gladys loved to eat, and I remember packing some goodies for her, which he enjoyed immensely. 


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

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 1,909,077
  • number of people who died from the virus: 109,497


 So much is going on in the world around us..... from a pandemic, protests, and rioting. Yet for us, today would have been Mattie's high school graduation. Another milestone missed, and another milestone we were not included in. I realize the entire graduating class was unable to experience a formal graduation, but from my lens, though disappointing, it is not the end of their lives or world. Mainly because this closes one chapter, and opens up a whole new set of opportunities for them. Opportunities which Mattie will never have, and we will never experience. It is ironic, that Mattie has been gone ten years, and yet milestones like these don't get any easier to discuss and certainly our support community stays away from this topic altogether. 
In addition to how we are feeling about Mattie's death, we are seeing the city of Washington, DC being transformed before our eyes. This was once the vibrant main street of Georgetown. Now everything is boarded up. 
M street in Georgetown. It is like a ghost town. Typically this would be graduation season and the town would be packed with people celebrating. 
Mattie and I loved Georgetown Cupcake. On any given day, pre-coronavirus, there would be lines up the block to get into the store. Look at it now. 
Even businesses and stores in Foggy Bottom, are boarded up. I would have to say it takes a great deal of inner strength to manage with a lock down for months and to see one's neighborhood being transformed, without having any control over it. 
Posted by The Brown Family (DC) at 6:12 PM

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