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

March 3, 2021

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2009. Mattie's support community organized and hosted the Mattie March in his honor. If you look closely, Mattie was in the center of the crowd, surrounded by ALL his health care team, close friends, and cousins. 


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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 28,771,556
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 518,900


Do you believe it is possible to be glued to a computer all day trying to create a website? If you have any doubt, that was how I spent my day. I am not happy that our walk website company upgraded their platform. It adds another level of complexity to our May event. Thankfully I found this out NOW and I did not wait until the end of March. I even had a nightmare last night that I wouldn't be able to figure out this new configuration. It kept me up until I went back to sleep. 

Any case, I walked Sunny today and after his walk, I focused on the walk website! I figure if I take it in small dosages, it will get done and I won't be overwhelmed. Yet I have noticed now that non-profit events have a new look on how they introduce themselves to the public. What do I mean? Well instead of just going to our website to register, first there appears to be a landing page that highlights our Foundation and provides a history of the event. From there people can click onto the actual event page with registration. 

Every aspect of running the Foundation has always been about LEARNING and staying current. Because if we don't, no one else is going to be doing it for us. So that means, for me, learning technology and understanding what it can do for us, because during Walk season, team members typically contact me with technical issues and concerns, and I have to be able to figure out the problem. 

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