Mattie Miracle 15th Anniversary Video

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

October 6, 2020

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Tuesday, October 6, 2020 -- Mattie died 575 weeks ago today. 

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2002. Mattie was 6 months old. As you can see, I took Mattie outside into our commons area to do what he loved the most.... walk. Mattie had no interest in sitting still and forget about crawling. He wanted to move and his "tot wheels" made that possible. We had the perfect enclosed space for Mattie to zoom around, to learn to fly a kite, and to learn to ride a bicycle.  


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

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 7,488,372
  • number of people who died from the virus: 210,637


Do you ever feel like hours, minutes, and days are just flying by, and yet you don't feel like MUCH is different? Some days I feel like I get up and the next thing I know it, it is time to cook dinner. With a chunk of time in between, where I don't get as much done as I once did! It is very frustrating and on a subconscious level stressful.

Somehow, to me it is the first week of October, but in actuality it is the second week. Which means that Friday, I have a licensure board meeting. Yet if I did not receive a follow up email today about it, I have to tell you I would have completely tuned out to that my attendance was required. It simply wasn't on my radar scope, nor were the hundreds of pages of minutes and documents I have to read to prepare. This is a first for me, as I never am this disoriented. I blame living in limbo since March for my confusion. 

The one highlight of the day for me are our big afternoon walks with Sunny. As we were walking today, look what was standing in the middle of the path ahead?
Mama deer with her baby. Mattie would have LOVED this sighting. As he was always intrigued by mothers with their children. He liked to compare these sightings to him and me, and Mattie would typically say "that's just like us!"



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