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

build happier habits in the daily life.

This week is episode 40, which means it's a very special episode, our first holiday themed

episode.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.

And Elizabeth last week we talked about your voice.

And now I want to talk about my voice because I'm kind of losing my voice, so sorry about

my harshness.

You sound very luring, right?

I am Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA.

And since Thanksgiving is tomorrow, I want to say I'm grateful to have a sister I actually

like talking to.

Oh, what an a-fister.

But so before we launch into our cornucopia of try this at homes, let's talk about what

we do, what our traditions are for the holidays, how we divide them up and divvy them up with

our families.

Yeah, well I am the classic every other year, you know, our family in laws.

I think that's, you know, what a lot of people do.

So Thanksgiving, one year with mom and dad and you, or you're never there for Thanksgiving,

we'll get to that.

But so I'm every other year and I love it because I really enjoy the holidays with both

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