Melissa Ringstaff is a homemaker, a wife, a mom, a writer, and the Founding Director of A Virtuous Woman, a ministry for women based on the Scriptures of Proverbs 31. She enjoyes teaching women how to get their homes in order and add peace and joy to their homes. The Vintage Homemaker is from Melissa's heart and very much about who she is at home.
Melissa is the proud mother of five sweet children, a step-mom to 4 wonderful "children" who are all grown up now, and Grandarlin' to 11 (so far) grand children. She is married to the love of her life, Mykal, who is a pastor in their community. Melissa lives in the beautiful Appalachian mountains of Harlan, Kentucky.
In 2003 our family moved to Harlan, KY. My husband's family comes from these mountains. Our youngest daughter, Laura, was born at our home in Harlan. This place has a rich history and many stories to tell. I thought you might enjoy learning more about this amazing place.
Our little eggs hatched today and we have a number of teeny tiny inch worms! They are so cute, as you can imagine newborn inch worms would be.
We looked up inch worms on Wiki Answers and found out that inch worms come from the Geometridae family of moths so we deduced which one of the moths […]
Five days ago my sweet little girls spent the afternoon chasing butterflies with their butterfly nets. They had a very productive day and caught several butterflies and skippers and moths. We learned in our science book, Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day that butterflies have striped antennas and skippers have “hooks” on the end of […]
I decided that I wanted to begin to share my study of nature here, with you. In the Fall of 2006 as we began another homeschool year, I felt drawn more and more the Charlotte Mason Method of learning. I am still learning exactly what this means, but what drew me initially to her writings […]
