To all the mothers who will be completing this book....

In filling in this book for your daughter you will create perhaps the most valuable gift you could ever give. Create a book for your daughter to treasure, full of your life's memories. Each item you write down will be recorded here for your daughter to read over and over again - and for her to pass down to her family. Because each thought is written down, it becomes a keepsake for life.

Change the book to fit your life - you may be divorced, or have been adopted as a child. Glue unsuitable pages together! Indeed, glue in special memorabilia and cross out headings that don't work for you.

The more messed-up, crossed out and personal your final gift is, the more precious, the more genuine it will be.