By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

Almost a year after the horrific Christmas Eve fire that wiped out her family after claiming the lives of her three children and parents, Madonna Badger says she still talks to the little girls when she closes her eyes at night.

"I've seen my children in my dreams," the devastated mom told Matt Lauer during a heartbreaking interview on Thursday's episode of TODAY. "When I pray, I see my children. Lily came to me very early on and said, 'Don't worry, Mommy, I'm right there in your heart and I love you.'

"Once when I was having a level 10, the worst sort of crisis, (where it) feels like blood is coming out of my eyes, Sarah came to me in the mirror and she said, 'Mommy, there's nothing to be afraid of. Everything is going to be OK.'"

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, a blaze sparked by yule log embers in the century-old Connecticut house killed Lily, 10; her 7-year-old twin sisters Sarah and Grace; and their grandparents Lomer Johnson and