Noelle’s Monthly Recap: December 2025

December flew by as I enjoyed Christmas festivities and an end of the month trip to Morocco. I attended a Christmas carol concert with friends, did two rounds of celebrating Christmas with Mark’s family, and drank plenty of mulled wine and gingerbread lattes. At the end of the month, Markell flew to London and we had a few days in the city before joining my dad and uncle for a trip to Morocco, a new country for me. Here’s what I got into in December 2025.

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Noelle’s Monthly Recap: November 2025

After a many year hiatus from writing monthly recaps, I’ve decided to bring them back! There is a lot happening in my life these days, so I’d love to be able to share more with readers.

November was a month of big changes for me. Mark and I moved to England, where he is from, and on the way did a “wrong way around the world” trip to Fiji, New Zealand, and Singapore. While I did hunker down quite a bit to manage all the tasks that come with moving, I also was able to sneak in a quick trip to Manchester and a long weekend in London. Here’s what I got into in November 2025.

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My February 2025 Social Media Detox Experience

On the afternoon of January 31, 2025 I made an announcement on Instagram and Facebook that I would be taking February 2025 off of social media and not returning until March.

I took the month of January off social media last year and wrote about how it went here.

This year I took February instead of January off of social media and wanted to share how the experience went my second time around. My motivations for taking the break were different this time so that impacted how I felt.

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