Does anyone just dream about running away?

[JKDcot]

From the monotony of day to day life? Nothing is wrong, love my husband and my son and earn well in a (dull) corporate job. Have hobbies and friends. But. Is this it?

considering renting the house out for a year adventure. Go life in Thailand or go travelling? Do something more rewarding and adopt or foster children so I am giving back and doing something useful.

anyone else? Any other ideas? Feel like I need a massive change in the New Year or I will just regret sitting around

Do it. Why not?

Sounds good. How old is your son? Do you have savings? Are you and your husband on the same page?

This is absolutely me atm.
Work, housework, kids stuff, repeat.
We are seriously considering moving abroad so at least we get some sunshine in amongst the daily grind. We lived abroad before and it does make life a bit more interesting.

Also I don't have that many friends I see (kids, work, daily life if everyone gets in the way). Which makes me more tempted.

Definitely. In fact, my husband and I are so fed up with the monotony of our current life that we are doing up the house to sell and are moving a few hundred miles away to the coast.
We’ve always lived where we should live and not where we want to live. (To be near parents / best for jobs etc).
Nothing massively wrong with where we are but it’s so boring and as you say, this can’t be it.
We want our children (4 and 9) to experience coastal life and enjoy a simpler way of living.
My Mum is moving too. Can’t wait. Not massively exotic but the biggest gamble and change we’ve ever made.
I think you have to trust your gut on these things and go for it.

Don’t adopt or foster because you are having a mid life crisis. You’ve placed this equivalent to traveling in Thailand, as if it’s just a ‘spice up your life’ option because you are bored,

Its not.

Echoing this.

I don’t mean to be off hand at all about adoption or fostering. I mean it with utmost respect for those that can bring that love to another human. I just want to be a better and more full person by doing more for others in life. My own family or others by living more. And trying to think of options that are hard and worthwhile

You have hobbies and friends?! I dream of hobbies and friends!
It could be worse, OP.

But yes, I feel like this. My life is utterly fucking boring, I only work and look after my children. Trying to break out of this tiny box a bit but I wouldn't even know where to begin.

My son is 4 so he could easily be home schooled for a bit or enjoy living abroad and learning in another school. We have savings and could try and find jobs can work remotely.

just wonder if the whole idea is just bonkers and short term fix

I second this.
Every thing I try and do is fucked by either something going wrong in the house/sick kids/financial issues.
It feels quite miserable.

Don't brush this feeling aside. I promise you that shortly after 'is this all there is' comes a mountain of unrequested responsibilities followed swiftly by old age.
Go for it.

It may be short term but there’s the phrase about a change being as good as a rest. It may satisfy you for a while or it could prompt a whole new life.

I just feel if I don’t make a change now I’ll look back and feel like I was just too stuck and scared to try anything new.

we only have 1 child and was wondering if i would be feeling the same if I had 2? Does that make all the difference to others? You’re more busy and it’s harder to just make a big change

Maybe but then I think you might catch these feelings again when DC leave home. Why not store your valuables and treasured items, put your house on AirBnB or with a lettings agent in a short term let, and go off somewhere travelling. Or rent a flat in a city in a different country and just live somewhere completely different? I’d be astonished if when you’re 70 you said ‘oh yeah that was a terrible decision, I wish I had never visited South America/ lived in Hanoi/ travelled round Australia in a campervan’. OTOH if you don’t I can easily picture the regret at not doing it.

we only have 1 child and was wondering if i would be feeling the same if I had 2? Does that make all the difference to others? You’re more busy and it’s harder to just make a big change

2 DC was the nail in the coffin for regular hobbies and socialising for me. They are only little so I hope I’ll find some more of ‘me’ in the future, but right now life is pretty monotonous yet extremely busy, a lot more so than when we just had 1. I wouldn’t have another as a way fo scratch your itch for change.