A FAMILY TRIP TO LONDON AND A COUPLES TRIP TO LEEDS WITH JURYS INN AND LEONARDO HOTELS AD
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
2y ago
There is just something so exciting about packing up your suitcase and heading somewhere new for the night, especially at the moment when a change of scenery after so long is so very welcomed and appreciated. Of course it goes without saying we absolutely love to travel, it’s one of our biggest passions as a family, but with all that has gone over the last year and a half heading off an adventure hasn’t been something that has really entered our heads. However with the world starting to slowly open up, we were excited to head off on two nights away, both very different but both brilliant and s ..read more
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4 NIGHTS IN PORTLAND, OREGON (PORTLAND TRAVEL GUIDE WITH KIDS) PACIFIC NORTH WEST ROAD TRIP
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
It’s been a while but I am back writing out PNW road trip posts. It’s probably been our greatest adventure yet- a road trip around parts of the Pacific Northwest in the US. We started off in Vancouver, headed down to Seattle, then Portland, then Lake Tahoe, before finishing off in San Francisco for a few hours before flying back to London. We were away 17 nights in total and it was without a doubt one of the best experiences of my life so far. I’m finally getting round to writing up an itinerary and travel guide for each destination, then once I have finished that I will put together a plannin ..read more
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IS THE CITROEN C5 AIRCROSS SUV A GOOD FAMILY CAR? (AD)
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
I wanted to add a note at the start of this post to say I actually wrote it back in March before the start of lockdown due to the COVID 19 pandemic. I then decided alongside Citroen that it wouldn’t be an appropriate time to post, so I decided to wait until now. I appreciate Citroen being flexible and for letting me wait until now to post it…   For the last few months we have been testing out a new set of wheels- the Citroen C5 Aircross SUV. As a family with three children and a new puppy, the car we get is really important as it needs to be big enough and practical enough for our family ..read more
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A VISIT TO THE PUMPKIN PATCH
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
Maybe I have been living under a rock (or perhaps a pumpkin), but I didn’t really know pumpkin patches were a thing in the UK. Having seen them on American films and indeed when we visited the US during October one year, I thought perhaps they were just something that was popular over there. However over the last few weeks I saw more and more people visiting them here in the UK. My instagram was awash with photos of an orange sea of pumpkins, of little people pushing wheelbarrows full of pumpkins of all different shapes and sizes, and of couples posing and smiling in front of a pumpkin or two ..read more
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THIS NEW CHAPTER OF LIFE
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
Oh hey seriously neglected blog. I had visions of writing more posts in 2020, but then, well, 2020 happened. The last few months have been a rollercoaster of emotions- contentment at the simple life we found ourselves in, huge worry, frustration, anxiety, personal loss and grief that we’ve faced as a family in the most unconventional of ways, and lots of happy memories too. 2020 has been one hell of a mixed bag so far, but that’s not want I want to focus on while writing this blog post. My blog used to be a family diary. Long before the days of Instagram, or You Tube, or before I possibly beca ..read more
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48 HOURS IN SEATTLE (GUIDE TO SEATTLE WITH KIDS)
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
Back in the summer of last year we embarked on what possibly was our greatest adventure yet- a road trip around parts of the Pacific Northwest in the US. We started off in Vancouver, headed down to Seattle, then Portland, then Lake Tahoe, before finishing off in San Francisco for a few hours before flying back to London. We were away 17 nights in total and it was without a doubt one of the best experiences of my life so far. I’m finally getting round to writing up an itinerary and travel guide for each destination, then once I have finished that I will put together a planning and tips post too ..read more
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WHAT I’VE READ IN LOCKDOWN SO FAR…
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
I used to be a huge bookworm, in my childhood, teen’s and early twenties. Then I had children, spent far too much of my time messing around on social media, and somewhere along the line I stopped reading as much. My reading now goes in phases- sometimes I read more, sometimes I read less, but it is very unlikely I will finish more than one or two books in a month unless it’s one of those ‘can’t put it down’ types. Since we have been in lockdown I have found myself reading a fair bit more. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not exactly churning out the books at a rapid rate. I finished off one I only had ..read more
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LOCKDOWN LIFE
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
We are now entering our fifth week of lockdown in the UK. Five weeks ago we would have very rarely used words such as ‘lockdown’, ‘social distancing’ and ‘COVID19’, yet now they are words we use and hear on a daily basis. What is going on in the world is surreal, terrifying, life changing and utterly impossible to comprehend, in fact I don’t think I have even begun to process it.   I, like every single person in the UK, am being affected by this. Not as much as others by any stretch, but our lives have still changed dramatically, and by all accounts they will be for some time. I miss fami ..read more
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HOW TO EDIT VIDEOS ON YOUR PHONE
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
Last week I wrote a blog post all about creating a fun stop motion style video on your phone, something which has been entertaining myself and my children while they have been off school during lockdown. Today I wanted to share a different idea with you. If you have been following me for a very long time, or even a while, you will know that documenting and creating memories is something that has been a huge passion of mine for a very long time. Indeed the whole reason I started my blog nine years ago now (!) was to document life as a first time mum. Back then social media was very different, b ..read more
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STAY AT HOME FUN WITH OSMO | AD
Katie Ellison | A Family Travel and Lifestyle Blog
by Katie Ellison
3y ago
On days when we are having a quiet day at home (which is obviously happening a lot at the moment), if you ask my children what they would like to do I can guarantee they will say ‘can we go on the iPad?’ For a child going on their tablet for a while is something that they love to do, but often as a parent I feel like we should be doing something more educational or I should be limiting what they actually play or watch on there. A while ago I got approached by Osmo- and award winning play system for tablets– to see if we would like to try it out. I have actually used Osmo before at a friends ho ..read more
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