After filling suitcases with items demanded by her fussy terrorist husband, Fatima Elomar could barely contain her excitement about reuniting with him in a Middle Eastern war zone.
"Row row row your boat, Sneak up in the stream, Lock n load in Mujadid Mode, Islamic State Shaheeds," she sent to her now-dead extremist husband Mohamed Elomar on April 8, 2014, using the messaging app 'Tango.
"Inshallah I'm going to be there soon."
Her morbid adaptation of the popular children's tune was revealed in documents tendered at Sydney's District Court, where the 30-year-old on Friday appeared briefly for a sentence hearing.
She had pleaded guilty to one charge of supporting or promoting foreign hostile acts only days before she was to go to trial last November.
Details of that support, which ranged from buying clothes to communicating with extremists' associates, emerged in the thousands of messages exchanged between the Elomars.
In April 2014, about four months after leaving home, Mohamed's requests began. Initially he asked for ankle socks but soon also heavy duty socks, solar powered torches and chargers, "the best cover" for a Samsung phone a beard trimmer, insect repellent and sunglasses.
Most importantly, he repeatedly stressed, were buttonless long-sleeve shirts and a particular type of watch.
After buying everything requested of her on eBay, Fatima Elomar sent her take on "row your boat" to her husband, appearing enthusiastic about her upcoming trip to Syria.
But only a little more than a week before, she had been trying to convince Mohamed to return to Australia for medical treatment.
He had been shot in the right knee and was sending pictures from hospital back to Fatima.
"Babe will you ever consider coming back," she asked.
"No bk (because) that's turning my bk (back) on Allah swt," he responded.
Fatima then asked if it would be better for him to leave, as he was only lying in hospital, and seek proper treatment.
"Babe humdulilah I have taw heed if you only knew the rewards it contains, the prophet saw said (sic) when the first drops of blood gush from teh (sic) leg all his sins are forgiven ya rab Allah swt accepts it from me," he responded.
For several months the Elomars had used the app to communicate. At one point Fatima and her close associate Tara Nettleton, the wife of notorious terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, were acting as intermediaries for their husbands.
The men had travelled to Syria together but had become lost in the country's north.
They managed to reunite in Raqqa after sending messages through their wives.
It is believed Mohamed Elomar was killed in a drone strike in the Islamic State's self-declared capital last June.
Fatima Elomar was arrested in May 2014 at Sydney Airport while tying to fly out of the country. She is facing a maximum jail sentence of 10 years and will return to court in July for a further sentence hearing.
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