My 10 year wedding anniversary is coming up. We’ll probably celebrate it with a long weekend away, possibly in the Hudson Valley in New York. I was hoping for diamonds, or somewhere tropical, but we’re trying to be conservative with our money....

My sister is utterly ungrateful. I have given her two years worth of clothing for her daughter, countless toys and lots of time photographing her children. And I have barely gotten a simple thank you. She’s borrowed my cradle, twice. I’ve...