by Jacqui Eisen | Feb 10, 2021 | A Place to Come Home To, Jacqui's Home Projects, Projects to Inspire You
Most people do not complain about the sun shimmering on clean white snow, especially if they are looking out a window at someone else shoveling it! But often we are the ones shoveling the white stuff and the sun doesn’t shine every day. On those dreary days...
by Jacqui Eisen | Aug 26, 2020 | Jacqui's Home Projects, The Hospitable Home
When we talk about what makes a home, we sometimes forget the pets that are there to greet us when we come home at the end of the day. We had two pets before Cedric. Sasha, a sweet tempered, gentle English Setter and, Princess, a three pound black ball of nasty feline...
by Jacqui Eisen | Aug 1, 2020 | A Place to Come Home To, The Hospitable Home, Uncategorized
Welcome to our new and improved website. Launching our new site represents a year of planning and 6 months of intensive work and it’s just the beginning! Our original site did not have the navigational organization needed to help our visitors find the various...
by Jacqui Eisen | Jun 13, 2018 | A Place to Come Home To, The Hospitable Home
There are those kitchens where more memories are made than any other place on earth. I remember when my Oma and Opa moved to Fruitland, Ontario. There was an apricot tree there. Oma baked the most delicious sand cakes filled with apricot jam. Years later I realized...
by Jacqui Eisen | Nov 1, 2017 | A Place to Come Home To, Special Days and Traditions, The Immigrant Experience
When I was a child, my best friend Debbie used to get a Christmas box from her grandparents who still lived in The Netherlands. In those days we called a box like that a “kist”. That translates as “crate”. When the kist arrived for...
by Jacqui Eisen | May 6, 2016 | A Place to Come Home To, Niagara & Welland
If you ask Naomie Cesar how she ended up in Welland, she will tell you it was because she ran out of money. If you ask her why she stayed in Welland, she will tell you it was because of the people. After leaving Haiti Naomie lived in Miami for 7 years. In 2008, she...
