To be a very bored housewife!

[Mrsjaffacake]

Well as title says im bored. Very bored. Being a kept woman is not all glamour. There has to be more to life than this? Im going to go insane very soon. Everyday is the same old shite! Washing, cooking, shopping, childcare duties, housework, admin, endless boring crap.
I miss my old life, even though love hubby and family life.
Am I the only one who feels this way??!

Get a job?

So back to work? Is that possible? Some people take to SAHMdom like a duck to water, others hate it and go a bit potty. You certainly shouldn't feel obligated to carry on if it's not suiting you.

Could you volunteer somewhere? Woudl that help?

You don't actually sound like a kept woman to me - you sound like you work fairly hard. It would cost your DH/DP a fair bit to replace you.

I would love a job but hubby works shifts so would have to pay childcare. I was thinking of some kind of course to expand my brain, not sure what hence asking for advice/ feedback.

learn to play an instrument. rewarding and flexible and a good example to the kids. loads of youtube lessons for guitar, for example.

What are your interests?

Any hobbies you could take up?

Yes, but paying childcare is the norm. That's what most people do. That's not a reason not to get a job if you're going nuts.

I feel trapped at moment as youngest is baby. Anything I do would require baby to be looked after. Part of me thinks I may have to bide time til she starts school. Yes I have also thought about doing volunteer work of some kind. My husband says we shouldnt hsve to pay for childcare as its my job. We have discussed this. I do agree as not keen to leave baby with strangers.

Hobbies. Yes like that. Ideas for hobbies please?

Do you take you baby out to do things?

Meet new people?

Have you thought of voluntary work ? Victim Support is a good place to start. I volunteered with them a few years ago and then I applied for a part time admin role, carried on climbing the ladder and now I'm the manager of a London Borough. Volunteering polished up my skills, I did specialist training, it gave me confidence and I could volunteer on days/times that suited me.

Yes take baby to groups but...... hmmn not keen. Seem to be full of lots of other brain dead Mothers who just want to do baby talk. Drives me mad. Why do people think that I would enjoy all that boring babble. I want to engage in adult chat. News, current affairs. Books etc. You get the idea.

Join a book club or enrol on a OU course.

Evening job while your husband is at home with baby?

I was like that, btu you have to get past the baby chat to get to that.

At the end of the day, you go to a baby group then you all have the same thing in common, babies. This is your starting point. You get to know someone better and then you can branch out in to the more adult normal stuff :)

Get a hobby you enjoy.

Baby yoga/ baby fit = exercise with baby

Baby cinema = cinema early in day that they have slightly quieter and lighter and fine if tad nosy

Study something ( easy enough that you can do say an hour a day when baby is sleeping)

Volunteer ( with baby)

Visit all the museums

Join the gym ( with a baby crèche)

Become more self sufficent by growing things in garden/ get chickens

Join a service organisation like Rotary/WI/Round Table. Soon you'll have so much on your plate you'll be wishing for some peace and quiet hollow voice of experience

Doing a job is just all this you already do plus work...
Do fun stuff! Do you see friends? Take kids out to aquarium, fair, cinema etc. get the train to new places, see new things.