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

November 11, 2021

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2007. Mattie was five years old and that Thanksgiving we took him to Boston to visit Peter's family. This was Mattie's first experience raking leaves and then jumping into them! You can see him laughing as he was surrounded by his cousins. 



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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 46,833,116
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 759,568


I drove to Mattie's hospital today where he received treatment and made a very large snack and candy donation. This is only ONE of the carts we donated. By the time we were finished unpacking the car, we had two large carts filled, and a third smaller cart. Keep in mind that Mattie Miracle purchased nothing you see here. Everything was donated to us from the community. It has been an extraordinary turnout this year. 
Literally this is what today's car load looked it. It was jammed packed and it made driving challenging. 
I literally couldn't see out of the rear view mirror, which I don't really like. 
Get the picture? After my drop off, I went to Mattie's school to pick up the last bundle of candy donations. I am expecting another larger sized donation tomorrow from our plumbing, heating, and HVAC company. But it is my hope after that, that I am done, because my last delivery is on Monday, at Children's Hospital at Sinai. I am working down to the wire, as I fly to Los Angeles on Thursday the 18th. 

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