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



February 6, 2021

Saturday, February 6, 2021

Saturday, February 6, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in February of 2009. You maybe asking yourself..... what was happening here? Well we were in the hospital hallway having a physical therapy session. However, Mattie pretended to be the therapist and me and Anna (Mattie's therapist) were the patients. Anna wanted Mattie to do this twister type game! However, it was new to Mattie and he wasn't eager to try it, so we offered to go first. He liked that idea a lot! Mind you I was used to participating in Mattie's therapy sessions even before he was diagnosed with cancer. As Mattie started occupational and speech therapy as a toddler, and I was always his side kick in all the sessions.   


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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 26,908,454
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 461,910


We took Sunny to Great Falls today. Sunny absolutely loves it. This was also a park Mattie enjoyed going to. I have no doubt Mattie and Sunny would have been great pals. Along our journey today, Sunny got a lot of oohs and aahs! People are just attracted to him, and truly admire his kind and gentle spirit! 

I spent a good part of the day trying to complete the assessments and other assignments our professional fundraising consultant gave to us. I have been maintaining Mattie Miracle's donation database since 2009! My database makes sense to me, but it may not to someone else. Most certainly the data the consultant is asking of us, is causing me to have to re-organize my database to answer her questions. So needless to say, I have been spending hours on this task. Am I learning something new? I am not sure! But I can say that the data presented in the fashion she is asking for it confirms a lot of what I intuitively know! WE HAVE LONG-TIME donors and on average over 1,000 people contribute to Mattie Miracle each year.  

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