Our First Christmas at the Lake House

Welcome to the first Christmas at our new lake house. I know, I know, I’m not your typical blogger who has her Christmas pictures up two weeks before Thanksgiving so as to inspire you in your own decorating endeavors. I’ll admit, it’s taken me longer to decorate this year with all of the figuring out where things will go!

It’s also been hard to get a post up because, as I’ve said before, the Internet speed is incredibly slow out here in the country (they’ve promised that will change sometime in the future) and it takes hours and hours to do just one post.

Since I’ve already spent far too much time playing with my photos I’m going to breeze through with very little talk today and a whole lot of pictures.

I’ll start with the dining room, which is immediately to the right as you come in the front door.


I did a natural centerpiece this year with fresh greens and pinecones on silver and white.





Beyond the dining room is the entry hall.





Which is open to the great room.








The great room is open to our kitchen dining nook.



And right around the corner from that is the kitchen. As you can see, our living space is pretty open here.




The dining nook and kitchen look directly out onto the screened porch, and the lake beyond.


If you were to walk out onto the deck you would see another door which leads into our master bedroom. I haven’t added many Christmas decorations here. Only a small tree and three wreaths above the bed. By the way, you can also get to our bedroom from a hallway behind the kitchen. I didn’t want you to think we had to walk outside to go to bed 🙂



We have many beautiful sunrises at the lake and this is what I’m hoping our company will see on Christmas morning. That just might make it the best Christmas ever!

I’m praying for faster Internet speeds so I can share posts with you more often. In the meantime, I do post updates almost daily on Instagram if you’d like to follow along there.
Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas and many blessings in the New Year.
Patti
I’ve been known to link up to the following great parties!!!
Sunday:
SundaysAtHome, SilverPenniesSundays, RusticAndRefined, Spiritual Sundays
Monday:
IShouldBeMoppingTheFloor, TheDedicatedHouse, Dwellings, ProjectInspired, InspireMeMonday, CelebrateYourStory, Darling Downs Diaries, MomentsOfHope, Glimpses, SittingAmongFriends, InspireMeMonday,
Tuesday:
TalkOfTheTown, HomeStoriesAtoZ, AStrollThruLife, CoastalCharm, CedarHillFarmhouse, TuesdaysAtOurHome, TheWinthropChronicles, Rich Faith Rising Unite Linky, Testimony Tuesday,Cheerleaders of Faith,Tell His Story WorthBeyondRubies
Wednesday:
SavvySouthernStyle, A Wise Woman Builds Her Home, Woman to Woman Word Filled Wednesdays, Coffee for Your Heart, MessyMarriage, ThreeWordWednesday, WriterWednesday
Thursday:
ShareYourStyle, ImpartingGrace, EmbracingChange, HaveADailyCupOfMrsOlson, MyRepurposedLife, ADelightsomeLife, KatherinesCorner, Thought Provoking Thursday, SincerelyPaulas, ThoughtfulThursday, Tune-inThursday
Friday:
FrenchCountryCottage, TheCharmOfHome, TheDedicatedHouseAnythingBlueFriday, ShabbyliciousFriday, Faith’nFriends, Dance With Jesus FreshMarketFriday
Saturday:
Day 22 - Searching for Perfect Seashells and a DIY Coastal Cloche
The Write 31 Days Challenge - 31 Days,Every Day,One Topic Day 22 (day 1 starts here) One of my favorite things to do at the beach is collect shells, and we recently found a beach that was covered in them! The hunt was on as I began searching for the most beautiful, most perfect, most…
Day 21 - Forgiving God
The Write 31 Days Challenge - 31 Days,Every Day,One Topic Day 21 (day 1 starts here) Perhaps this question seems ridiculous to you, or even offensive. Holiness is an attribute of God, a part of who He is, so by virtue of who God is He is incapable of sin. So why do we need…
Day 20 - Forgiving Others
The Write 31 Day Challenge - Write 31 Days,Every Topic,Same Topic Day 20 (day 1 starts here) Okay friends, I’m going to give it to you up front here. This entire post today is about forgiving others and it is long because I believe it is THAT important! The entire tone of my story would’ve…
Day 19 - Her Name was Abortion
The Write 31 Days Challenge - 31 Days,Every Day,One Topic Day 19 (day 1 starts here) Small bands of teenage girls huddled together along the seemingly endless row of lockers, casting sidelong glances at the lone girl, walking chin up, eyes focused forward, as if aiming toward an imaginary finish line at the end of…
Day 18 - Confess Your Sins to Each Other . . .
The Write 31 Days Challenge - 31 Days,Every Day,One Topic Day 18 (day 1 starts here) I was ready now to get down to some real work and God had some surprises ahead with the many people and ways He would use to minister His healing in my life. Note: I feel led to insert…
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