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

May 5, 2021

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken on May 5, 2002. About a month after Mattie was born. That day, his cousins were visiting from Massachusetts. We all met up in Shirlington, VA to have ice cream outside. While there, the family bought Mattie this cute beanie bunny in the toy store. I loved Mattie's facial expression as he was trying to focus in on the bunny. 

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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 32,552,408
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 579,225


Many of our Walk committee members are working on getting people to sign up for our event all over the country! Today I put out a request on Facebook, and we got three more states to sign on. We are three states away from having all 50 states represented. Truly a great achievement. 

Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.... we need you!



Our Walk thermometer rose today to $97,778! A wonderful sight to see! 

It was another day of house hunting, between Walk work! I saw four more. I honestly can tell you every house on the market in Northern Virginia. The four I saw today were not great at all. So we go back at it tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday! House hunting has become like a part time job for me. I find it exhausting and this is even before I have to pack and move things for myself and then for my parents. 

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