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ANNUAL RITZ FAMILY DAY
Every Spring, we celebrate a special holiday. We call it "Ritz Family Day." We aim for the third Wednesday in March, but we are flexible with the date depending on what is going on in our calendar any given year. The purpose of the day is to celebrate our family... just the three of us. We choose a different activity every year and try to make it memorable. We always choose a day that is a normal work/school day so we can purposely take time off to spend together. We are so grateful to have each other and we never want to take for granted the special bond we have, so Ritz Family Day has become one of many things that we do to celebrate God's gift of family.
This year we went to New York City! To save money we traveled by bus and stayed overnight in bunk beds at the Metro New York Baptist Association building instead of at an expensive Manhattan hotel. With those expenses minimized, we were able to splurge on some quintessential NYC experiences:
- We ate plenty of NY pizza, bagels, and steak!
- We visited the American Museum of Natural History (and LOVED it).
- We walked around Central Park and explored.
- We took lots of subway rides, crisscrossing all over Manhattan.
- We visited the United Nations building.
- We took the ferry to the Statue of Liberty (definitely a highlight).
- We saw the Blue Man Group perform (hilarious and such fun).
- We went to Times Square and spent plenty of time in the flagship Toys R Us store (we do have a 10 year old, after all).
- We had the best cookie of our lives at Levain Bakery.
Basically, we had a ball and made memories that will last a lifetime! If you have never thought of claiming a day of the year as an annual family holiday, we highly recommend it! Kids grow up awfully fast and they need to know that God put them in just the right family for just the right reasons. Sometimes we all need a break from the routine to remember just how blessed we are!
(PS - We don't always take a big trip or do something costly - some years we have all just stayed home from work/school for a day and played board games and watched movies together!)
This year we went to New York City! To save money we traveled by bus and stayed overnight in bunk beds at the Metro New York Baptist Association building instead of at an expensive Manhattan hotel. With those expenses minimized, we were able to splurge on some quintessential NYC experiences:
- We ate plenty of NY pizza, bagels, and steak!
- We visited the American Museum of Natural History (and LOVED it).
- We walked around Central Park and explored.
- We took lots of subway rides, crisscrossing all over Manhattan.
- We visited the United Nations building.
- We took the ferry to the Statue of Liberty (definitely a highlight).
- We saw the Blue Man Group perform (hilarious and such fun).
- We went to Times Square and spent plenty of time in the flagship Toys R Us store (we do have a 10 year old, after all).
- We had the best cookie of our lives at Levain Bakery.
Basically, we had a ball and made memories that will last a lifetime! If you have never thought of claiming a day of the year as an annual family holiday, we highly recommend it! Kids grow up awfully fast and they need to know that God put them in just the right family for just the right reasons. Sometimes we all need a break from the routine to remember just how blessed we are!
(PS - We don't always take a big trip or do something costly - some years we have all just stayed home from work/school for a day and played board games and watched movies together!)
