Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for how to build

happier habits into daily life.

This week we'll talk about why you should take a scent snapshot of your life and how to

face the happiness stumbling block of leaving home the first time.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, writer whose studies happiness in human nature.

Usually I'm in New York City, but today I am not.

I am face to face, which I don't often get to do, with my sister Elizabeth Krafful,

is it so fun to be sitting right across the table from you?

That's me, Elizabeth Kraf, to TV writer and producer, living in Los Angeles.

And yes, Gretchen, today we are just outside of Big Timber, Montana, celebrating some milestone

birthdays in the family.

Yes, it's our parents and my husband Jamie's parents, like all have birthdays that are

clustered together.

So we're having this all family round up birthdays celebration outing.

It's so much fun.

Yeah, and it is gorgeous here.

Yes, there's mountains, there's a river, there's flower, wildflowers growing.

Right now we're in a cabin with wood walls and a stone fireplace.

And Eliza is our guest producer.

Thank you, thank you Eliza.

Thanks Eliza.

Now Gretchen, our listeners all want to know why we never have our parents on show.

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