Your ideas sound perfect! One other thing to pass along from my sessions with Jody (coach). Pick up something special on the trip (type of special photo, trinket, framed photo, object d'art, etc.) to bring home with you. W doesn't even need to be involved in the selection process. Maybe your children can pick this out with your help? This should be something that every time W looks at it she will remember the wonderful trip you all took together as a family. Those memories and warm feelings will flood back at a subconscious level when ever she looks at it. We women are very sentimental that way.
When my H moved his things out, Jody told me to be generous with our special possessions ---- to give him the things that he wanted so that every time he looked at them he would have warm thoughts of me and our time together. I parted with some things that were special to me (framed art photo of a Tuscan landscape (a place we visited on our honeymoon) and Italian ceramic wall hanging), but within 3 months of H moving out he told me one evening that the trip we took to Italy (wedding/honeymoon) was the best trip of his life.
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Great idea. We used to buy a Christmas ornament with each trip to Disney, and we have quite a few. At some point, we stopped doing that. Not sure why.
