You're listening to a mini edition of The Lively Show, episode 57.

Welcome to The Lively Show. I'm your host Jess Lively,

and this blogcast is designed to uplift, inspire, and add a little extra intention to your everyday.

Happy 2015 guys, I cannot believe that I am speaking to you guys after what has been a bit of a break.

As you guys know, I have been taking a few weeks off to be with my family and to spend time with them.

They came into town actually for the holidays or for Christmas and it was really fun to show my

parents and my middle brother Matt around Austin and show them our home and

everything like that. My brothers Matthew and Michael, my two younger brothers,

stayed actually in our home, but my house isn't big enough that we're renting for my parents to stay here too.

So they were in a hotel but my brothers were here.

Crashing in our house it was a lot of fun, a lot of testosterone running around with

Franklin, Mr. Lively, Matthew and Michael, but it was really, really fun.

And I'm so excited because I'm still hoping that my littlest brother, Michael, who has been here

a lot in the last few weeks, interviewing for different companies here in Austin.

I'm hoping that in 2015 he gets to move here

and spend time with us and it'll be really fun

to live in the same city, let alone state as someone in my family,

which hasn't really happened since I was in college.

So anyways, we're all kind of spread out, but it was really fun to connect and to hang out over Christmas break.

In addition, it was crazy nice to have an autoresponder up for the last few weeks and

able to really feel like I was able to check out of my work.

I say that with air quotes because really over the last week or so

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