"More than once, I have found myself beside her bed taking notes as she shares things like when the best time to plant the garden will be this spring, how to prune the fruit trees and to make sure we still set aside a percentage of what we make as a tithe each month," her husband Rory Feek tells People magazine.

Feek's daughters from a previous relationship, Heidi, 29, and Hopie, 27, have been spending time with their stepmother, along with the couple's nearly two-year-old daughter Indy.