Since you are getting a lot of good advice, and I don't have the 1/2 hour to give you my "this is what I would do", when I don't know what you really need, and what would be nice to have, I'll just make this comment:
I LOVE your typo in your second sentence. I thought it was so appropriate to call your wife oaky (instead of okay) . Not that I know your wife, or think in any way that she is oaky, but if you are going to have a typo on a woodworking forum, that is about as good as it gets.