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

July 12, 2020

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in July of 2007. Mattie was visiting Peter's parents in Boston. They set up a slip and slide on the lawn and Mattie had his first encounter with this form of summer fun. Naturally, Mattie was cautious about sliding on it to begin with, so he went on Peter's lap first. However, once he got the hang of it, and understood that the water would help him slide, he was good to go! I am so glad we took every opportunity to have Mattie travel around and experience as much as he could in such a short period of time. 




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

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 3,288,788
  • number of people who died from the virus: 135,118


We had a slower day today which was very needed. Peter and I continue to have problems sleeping. I feel this is from being under intensive stress for over a month.

After walking Sunny today on the National Mall (which he loves!), we headed back home to tackle our deck. Keep in mind it is in the 90's outside with high humidity. So working outside is challenging and exhausting. But neither one of us were happy with how poorly our deck looked. I also know we have older neighbors who love looking down into our garden in the summer time. All they were seeing lately were dead things and weeds!

The deck is now fully planted, cleaned and watered! 

The plant in the center is the Meyer lemon tree we bought yesterday at the nursery. I requested this tree for my birthday as I am a big lemon fan. I drink lemon juice daily to prevent kidney stones and I cook with a lot of lemon juice. I also love Black Eyed Susans, as you can see!
Things look happier now and of course I have all my garden things on display..... chimes, the sun, butterflies, and stepping stones. 
I am sure I am in the minority, but I even use Clorox on the deck. We have a big building next door to us and they are the WORST neighbors. Whatever debris is on their roof, comes right into our patio. I have to clean our space weekly from the dirt and junk that blows on over. Today, I scrubbed and washed all the grey junk away and we are back to having a beige deck once again. 

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