Welcome aboard and you may as well go ahead and give your wife a gift card to your local kitchen store since if you haven't already, you probably will abscond with her measuring cups and bowls, measuring spoons, microwave, griddle, presto pots, toaster over, etc. Not sure how old you are now, but since you said you have been making plastic since you were 12,You probably already have quite the array of kitchen tools.
We're glad you are here with this crazy bunch of folks.