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

July 20, 2022

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Tonight's picture was taken in July of 2003. This was one of Mattie's first kiddie pools on our deck. He loved it and he especially liked it when Peter went in the water with him. Peter was a good sport and he always made the time to do activities with Mattie. 




Quote of the day: You can’t explain what it’s like to mourn someone who is still alive unless you’ve experienced it firsthand. ~ Jessica Seay-Soto


What's with the missing watch? Well I spent 60 minutes or MORE this morning trying to find my mom's misplaced wristwatch. Mind you I just finished getting my dad ready, he had breakfast and he was out the door to his memory care center. This in theory should be my four hours to get things done. FORGET it. This has become the time I need to focus on my mom and trust me she needs a ton of support. Yesterday's saga was resolving credit card issues and today's was the missing watch. I literally looked everywhere in the house for the watch. I finally gave up. I then took her out to Nordstrom Rack to shop and while in the store, she reached into her pants pocket. Out came the wristwatch. I was truly besides myself! As I don't know how you can have this in your pocket and NOT feel it. It is not just my mom's forgetfulness that is an issue. She manufacturers crises and then expects us to believe what she is saying! For example, several weeks ago she insisted there was an election primary and she HAD to go and vote. I received nothing in the mail about this election and could find nothing on-line about our district. Yet she insisted I was wrong and that she got communication in the mail. Finally I asked to see what she got in the mail, and indeed the communication had NOTHING to do with an election. This is just one of many, many examples. It is emotionally taxing and very, very time consuming. 

I received this photo from the National Institutes of Health today. I purchased around $1,400 worth of items to stock our snack and item cart at the clinical center. Hard to believe that only 7 boxes could have contents that are worth so much! 
Meanwhile my birthday pile is growing at home. I truly appreciate these generous gifts that will stock our carts!
Though Miss Indie is Peter's cat in all intensive purposes, she does occasionally enjoy my company and every night, she escorts me upstairs to bed. She sits on my side of the bed and then expects a greeting and pets! 


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