Rory Feek reveals daughter Indiana is starting preschool and learning to walk after death of his wife Joey whose dream was to home school the little girl

The death of Joey Feek has led to some big changes in the life of her husband Rory and daughter Indiana.

Rory wrote on his blog This Life I Live that Joey had always wanted to home school Indiana, but after her death took that dream along with her.

Now, Indiana has started preschool at a facility near the family farm in Tennessee where she is making new friends and even learning how to walk.

It is a big adjustment for the two year old, who has Down Syndrome, but she and her father seem to be happy with this new school.

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Rory Feek revealed that daughter Indiana (ABOVE) had started at a preschool for children with special needs

His wife Joey had always dreamed of home schooling their daughter before she died of cancer earlier this month (family above in early 2015)

'Indy has been in the preschool a couple days a week for the last week and a half now and is loving every minute of it,' writes Rory

'Indy has already started physical therapy classes to help her learn to walk and speech therapy,' said Rory

'Joey had every intention of home-schooling Indy as she grew up. For many reasons. But life has changed that plan,' writes Rory.

'I have written before about our desire to live our lives with “high hopes and low expectations”… but during the month of January, when Joey and I decided we needed to start researching what and where the next-best option for school for Indy might be…we had no idea that God would lead us to a place called, of all things… High Hopes.

Rory goes on to describe High Hopes, Indiana's new place of learning, as half preschool and half state-of-the-art therapy center for children with special needs.

'Indy has been in the preschool a couple days a week for the last week and a half now and is loving every minute of it,' writes Rory.

'Indy has already started physical therapy classes to help her learn to walk and speech therapy to start turning all the words that she can say with her hands into sentences she can say with her mouth. 

'I can hardly imagine how special it will be when the time finally comes that she can walk beside me and talk with me.

'I believe that God gives us just what we need, when we need it. Sometimes it’s not what we had planned or what we thought we wanted, but if we keep an open mind… it just might even be better than what we originally hoped for.'

Rory also revealed that one afternoon Indiana picked up a small figure of a man with overalls and began signing the word for 'papa.' 

High Hopes, Indiana's new place of learning, is half preschool and half state-of-the-art therapy center for children with special needs

Rory also revealed that one afternoon Indiana picked up a small figure of a man with overalls and began signing the word for 'papa'

Rory goes on to describe High Hopes, Indiana's new place of learning, as half preschool and half state-of-the-art therapy center for children with special needs

'I can hardly imagine how special it will be when the time finally comes that she can walk beside me and talk with me,' writes Rory

Rory closes by saying; 'Indy and I are trying to adjust to our new life at home. To the empty chair at our table and pillow on the other side of my bed'

Rory closes by saying; 'Indy and I are trying to adjust to our new life at home. To the empty chair at our table and pillow on the other side of my bed. 

'Desperately missing Joey and carrying her in our hearts with us everywhere we go. Knowing, believing… that she’s looking down each morning as I take Indy into High Hopes, still smiling saying, “that’s the one honey…that’s the one”.'

Joey was laid to rest earlier this month in a private ceremony followed by a burial in the family cemetery on the grounds of her Tennessee farm.

'It was tearful, but it was optimistic, especially being on the dirt,' said the couple's close friend Bill Gaither in an interview with People.

'She was part of the earth. We all felt as though we were close to her.'

Joey's husband Rory spoke at the service, and her body was brought out in a horse-drawn carriage.

'It was just a sweet Tennessee mountain moment. Very positive things were said at the gravesite,' said Geither.

He also said he spoke to Rory the next day after he had enrolled the couple's daughter two-year-old Indiana at school, and he told him; 'This is the first day of the rest of my life. I have responsibilities.'  

Mother and daughter: Joey and Indiana in her bed last year shortly before Christmas

Love: Joey's husband Rory said in late February; 'My wife has been asleep for days now and her body is shutting down quickly'

Gone: Joey passed away at the age of 40 with husband Rory writing; 'My wife's greatest dream came true today. She is in Heaven. The cancer is gone. The pain has ceased'

Joey passed away on March 4 after a lengthy battle with cancer.

'My wife’s greatest dream came true today. She is in Heaven,' wrote Rory in a post on their blog.

'The cancer is gone, the pain has ceased and all her tears are dry. Joey is in the arms of her beloved brother Justin and using her pretty voice to sing for her savior.

'At 2.30 this afternoon, as we were gathered around her, holding hands and praying.. my precious bride breathed her last. And a moment later took her first breath on the other side.'

Rory also shared on Friday a touching story about a video Joey received last year from one of her idols - Dolly Parton.

The family surprised Joey with the video last November, and on Rory posted a video of the moment Joey got to see her idol.

'From the time she was four years old, Joey had been singing Dolly’s songs and dreamed of one day meeting her. Coat of Many Colors was a regular part of our show and at home she loved to put on Dolly and listen to Hello God, When I Sing For Him, Me and Little Andy and many others,' wrote Rory.

'She never got the chance to meet her in person and had no idea that Dolly even knew who she was. But that changed one Friday evening this past November.'

'When a person has been through as much pain and struggle as Joey’s been through, you just want it to be over. You want them to not have to hurt anymore, more that you want them to stay with you. And so, it makes the hard job of saying goodbye just a little easier,' wrote Rory.

'After four-and-a-half months in Indiana, we will soon be back home in Tennessee. Me, and our little one, with our older daughters.

'It’s hard for me to imagine being there without Joey, but at the same time… it is where she wants us to be. It’s where she will be… She’s gonna be in the mint growing beside our back deck, the sweet-corn frozen in our freezer and a million other places that her hand and heart has touched around our little farmhouse and community. Joey will still be with us. Everywhere.

'So if it’s okay, I’m gonna close, wipe my tears and pack our bags to hit the road headed south.

'She’s already got a head-start on me.'