Find something that you and your wife can work on together. Refinish a piece of furniture, plants some fall flowers, rearrange the furniture, paint a room... It doesn't matter what you do, just that you are working together on a common goal.
Here is a project my wife and I finished to use at our son's wedding reception. A neighbor was getting rid of some wooden shutters, and we turned it into a corner shelf.
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