Happy First is so much more than cute clothing! (But cute clothing always helps your day!) Happy First is a movement to encourage and inspire others to live life to their fullest! it is an attitude - a happy outlook on life. Be grateful for each day and do something with it! Everyone is good at something. I think we all have creativity and dreams inside just waiting to burst out-break out of your shell! Come join the fun! Share your happy thoughts and inspirational stories through our various online outlets: on Facebook, visit my blog on Happy First Blog, or follow me on Twitter.

What does happiness mean to you? What do you want to do with your life? Or do you have an inspiring or encouraging story to share? I would love to hear your stories!

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Please read an inspirational story I just received - Becky's story so inspires me and I hope it inspires you too!

"I just saw your company on the morning news featuring the Island Shop in Jenks...I went to your website immediately and my heart was warmed. I was born and raised in Sapulpa, OK, graduated from Sapulpa High, Captain of the Soccer team in 1998, went to NSU on a soccer scholarship and moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 2002 after graduation to pursue a job with a Fortune 500 Company. In 2003, I woke up on a Monday morning to go to work and continued to pass out time and time again. I called 911 and ended up in the hospital for 5 days. My mother Kayla Parnell, flyed to be by my side. Little did I know that she and a family friend, Patty Hershberger, had narrowed down what was wrong with me...Leukemia or Aplastic Anemia. The second is very rare, approximately 1 in 1 Million that they had settled on Leukemia. The doctor came in on Friday the 13th, of June 2003 and delivered the news. I was diagnosed with a severe case of Aplastic Anemia, which would not be receptive to drugs and would have to have bone marrow transplant, with a 100% match to have a chance  at survival. If not I had no more than 18 months to live. There were a handful of hospitals in which could properly treat this rare condition.

At 23 years old, I left my new life in Florida to become a permanent fixture to MD Anderson in Houston for the next 2 years. I only have one brother, Ryan, and there was only a 20% of a match. Going to the National Registry would only yield a 3% chance of a match. Blood drives were held(in which one lady from my church, Presbyterian, ended up being a partial match for a child on the national program due to her coming to my blood drive)and prayers were answered. In late July, we received a call that my brother was a 100% match and the ball began to roll. After chemo and the stripping of my immune system, I had my transplant at the end of August, 2003. Unfortunately, I contracted EBV Virus(a strand of mono) while in the hospital. I had a favorite in-patient nurse named Wendi  while being treated. On Christmas Day I was being treated out patient when my favorite nurse said you will not be in a hotel, in Houston on Christmas Day and invited my mother and I to have Christmas Dinner with her family. I met her son Dustin on Dec. 25 and by Jan. 3 I was in a coma, with less than a 20% chance to live. Dustin sat by my side through it all. I came out of the coma at the end of January and have been doing wonderful since. Dustin is now my husband and we have a 10 month old miracle baby girl, named Scarlett Ryan(middle name after my brother for saving my life).

I found it very touching that your product line is based on the egg...I have called Scarlett since she was born, my little chicken or momma's little chick. That is even what she responds to. She is the first baby born to my doctor's patients in his 15 years plus of medicine. She is what your brand stands for...my life of recovery was the egg, fragile but strong and when Scarlett was born she allowed me to crack out of that egg and become what I had always dreamed of but was told would never occur due to the chemo...A MOMMY! Thanks for hearing my story and I hope through your designs you think how true your inspiration is!"

Becky Parnell-Romero