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

June 11, 2020

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2007. Mattie was visiting my parents in Los Angeles and that day we took him to the La Brea Tar Pits. A place he absolutely LOVED to visit. The Tar Pits has a wonderful museum that explains the history of the Tar Pits and showcases many of the prehistoric animal bones found in the tar over the years. In fact there is still an active tar pit that excavators work on to bring life to the many animals buried in these pits. In this photo, you will notice Mattie was trying to cover his nose! That was because the smell of tar is overwhelming at this site. 




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

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 1,999,900
  • number of people who died from the virus: 112,924

It is 9pm, Los Angeles time, and it has been a long day. I did not sleep well or at all last night. I knew Peter was downstairs with my dad and I was worried about him as well. As we had a long and stressful day just trying to fly across the country during COVID-19. 

By 4am, I was up and decided to just get myself ready and start the day. Fortunately I did because I got my dad to eat breakfast, got him completely changed and in fresh clothes, and had a productive morning. Doing all sorts of challenging things like creating healthcare directives. 

Later in the morning, we took my dad to see the doctor. It has been one issue after the other and yet Peter and I are also working hard to pack up my parent's home. We make several runs back and forth to their new home and I am on day 2 and already exhausted. 

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