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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

December 13, 2020

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2003. That Christmas we took Mattie to Los Angeles to celebrate the holidays with my parents. It was a big deal for my family as Mattie was the first and only grandchild. Each day we did an activity with Mattie and in this picture he was outside with Peter in the backyard, exploring!



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

  • number of people diagnosed with the virus: 16,211,498
  • number of people who died from the virus: 298,923


It may be December, but it felt like Spring outside. It was a glorious day. We took Sunny on a three mile walk at Turkey Run park. This park isn't far from where we live and on weekends when Roosevelt Island is too busy and the parking lot is full.... we head to Turkey Run. 
We walked along the waterfront and for the time we were out and about, life felt more normal. We had conversations with other walkers today and met a few dogs as well. 
The beauty of the Potomac Heritage Trail!
Of course for Sunny, he was thrilled to be on a new adventure, as we took a path we had never been on before! 

In many ways, I am thankful for Sunny, because without him, Peter and I would probably not walk as much and we certainly wouldn't have a good excuse to leave our home. Instead, we would work the day away, and today was too nice of a day not to spend a part of it outside. 


Posted by The Brown Family (DC) at 6:12 PM

1 comment:

Cheryl said...

Looks like a wonderful day! I'm glad you got to be out in the sunshine.

December 14, 2020 at 12:16 PM

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