Devastated mother Lindsey McCrory has shared the letter her daughter Blakely wrote at Camp Mystic days before the eight-year-old was swept away in the Texas floods.
McCrory, 50, said she was making funeral arrangements for Blakely when she received the heartbreaking note her daughter sent from the doomed Christian camp.
The third-grader said she was feeling 'good' and the camp in Hunts, Kerr County, was 'amazing', adding that she was enjoying playing tennis and horseback riding.
'I'm a Tonk,' Blakely also wrote to her mom, referring to one of the two groups the children were sorted into when they first arrived at the summer camp.
'She had asked me about the activities I had done when I was a kid, and she ended up taking all the same activities,' McCrory told NBC's Today show about the letters.
McCrory said her family received the notes from their beloved daughter just as they were making funeral arrangements to lay her to rest.
In a second letter, Blakely also asked her parents not to donate her most prized toys to charity as they moved home while she was at camp.
'Dear Mommy,' her letter read. 'Please don't give my Barbie Dream house.'
The third-grader said she was feeling 'good' and the camp in Hunts, Kerr County, was 'amazing', adding that she was enjoying playing tennis and horseback riding.
'I didn't cry,' McCrory told Today of the second note. 'It made me smile. I could hear her little voice as she wrote it.'
'I'd asked her which toys I could throw out and at first her Barbie Dream house was on the list. But then, I guess she had a change of heart!'
McCrory, whose husband suddenly died in March at age 59, said her daughter had been excited to go on the camp and was not worried about feeling homesick.
'She even made this comment like, 'Mom I get a whole month off from you!' McCrory told Today. 'Blakely was ready to go have fun with her friends and be independent.'
But tragedy struck in the early hours of July 4 when the Guadalupe River rose more than 26 feet in just 45 minutes, pounding local communities with flash flooding.
At Camp Mystic, where hundreds of children were sleeping at the epicenter of the flood zone, 21 campers and six counselors died.
McCrory was on a boat in Croatia with her sister and two nieces at the time. When they docked, her phone was buzzing nonstop with frantic calls from the camp.
Officials informed her that Blakely was missing. 'I dropped my phone on the table and started shaking,' McCrory said. 'My whole heart just sank.'
On June 7, McCrory received the devastating news that her daughter had been found dead. She was found wearing her green-and-white beaded Camp Mystic necklace.
The heartbroken mother said she sought solace in the thought that Blakely was 'in heaven with her daddy' and that she passed away quickly.
'I did have scenarios in my head, you know, what if she's severely injured and suffering?' she said 'It brought me peace knowing that she went quickly.'
At least 132 people have been confirmed dead in the Texas floods.
It came after the Trump administration made major cuts to federal funding, impacting agencies like FEMA which lead the response to natural disasters.
President Donald Trump traveled to the site of the horror floods on Friday.
He shared a tender moment with First Lady Melania Trump as he prepared to fly to Kerr County, putting his arm around her in a somber moment.
Single parent McLeod McCrory, 50, has shared notes her daughter Blakely (pictured) penned during her final days at the doomed Christian camp for girls in Hunt, Kerr County
A first responder appears emotional amid the search for bodies and survivors in Texas
'It's a terrible thing,' Trump said. 'We're going to be there with some of the great families and others, the governor, everybody.'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will join the Trumps on the trip.
Trump approved a major disaster declaration for Texas earlier this week.
The president, unlike in other disasters, has not cast blame on anyone for the tragedy, calling it a horrible accident.
'I would just say this is a hundred-year catastrophe, and it's just so horrible to watch,' the president said on Sunday.