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It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had forgotten to cherish the things that I loved, the things I wanted to keep.

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

A lot of the things I hold onto have memories attached to them. Bags, shoes and jewelry that were given to me from photo shoots and fashion shows throughout my career.