{"id":1536,"date":"2013-07-01T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2013-07-01T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T01:15:35","slug":"survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"Survey SAYS…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was running on the treadmill this morning watching the Today Show.\u00a0 There’s this annoying segment called Today’s Take wherein the hosts natter on and on about themselves.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 And sometimes throw in “new and noteworthy” reports from all over the globe.<\/p>\n

One such report this morning came\u00a0from a survey\u00a0done by the London School of Economics.\u00a0 The survey says\u00a0that spending time with friends makes you happier than spending time with family.\u00a0 A person’s\u00a0moods improve by 8% when they’re with friends, by 5.9% when they’re with their partners and by 1.4% when they’re spending time with their children.<\/p>\n

So….with my hubby\u00a0on a business trip, and both kids\u00a0visiting their grandparents cross-country, my standing\u00a0Margarita Monday lunch date with some gal pals made me the happiest person alive today.<\/p>\n

Right?\u00a0 Right?!?<\/p>\n

Hmmm…not so much.\u00a0\u00a0And how\u00a0puzzling is that???<\/p>\n

Now don’t get me wrong.\u00a0 The\u00a0Margarita Monday lunch dates I have\u00a0with these friends are\u00a0ALWAYS tons of fun.\u00a0 It’s just\u00a0that I spent today’s lunch constantly feeling like I had forgotten something.\u00a0\u00a0Or left something important behind.\u00a0 I was constantly checking my\u00a0iPod\u00a0thinking that I should be somewhere else\u00a0DOING something\u00a0else and may have accidentally forgotten where I was supposed to be.<\/p>\n

I mean, I have very pressing things to do: building\u00a0shelves in my daughter’s room, installing a fan in my son’s bedroom, painting a table\u00a0for the patio, looking for a job, walking the dog\u00a0and on and on and on…<\/p>\n

It’s just that I don’t have anyone to do it with.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

Hello, London School of Economics?\u00a0 This is New Stay at Home Mom calling.<\/p>\n

I think you got it\u00a0wrong.\u00a0 If a mother had designed the study for you, we would have sussed out the\u00a0important differentiator between\u00a0HAVING to spend time with a spouse and children vs.\u00a0WANTING to spend time but\u00a0not being ABLE to.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you’ve heard of it?\u00a0 It’s called\u00a0“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was running on the treadmill this morning watching the Today Show.\u00a0 There’s this annoying segment called Today’s Take wherein the hosts natter on and on about themselves.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 And sometimes throw in “new and noteworthy” reports from all over the globe. One such report this morning came\u00a0from a survey\u00a0done by the London School of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}