Real Life with Royal + Reese

Ideas for a Quarantined Summer

While there are many uncertainties in the world right now, I’m sure everyone is loving being out as much as the next person. Even if it’s just head...

Four Ways to Style Your Favorite Joggers

When quarantine hit, I thought I was set on comfy clothes. Turns out, I was wrong. After realizing that I didn’t have enough pairs of pants and coz...

Six Things to Kick Winter Blues

It was 23˚ in Nashville, Tennessee yesterday morning. I sat on the couch, drinking my coffee and gazed outside, as the giant snow flakes fell. Four...

Sweater Roundup

I am currently at the headquarters of Royal + Reese here in Normal, Illinois; or what Kait and I call “HQ”. Because I work remote, I only come into...

R+R Does Self Care

Self Care is defined as the practice of taking action to preserve or improve one's own health. Do you ever just get to a point, where you feel ...

Mother's Day

What better way to honor our mothers than by setting aside an entire day to celebrate them? To be honest, that doesn’t even feel like it’s enough. ...

Best and Worst Fads

Merriam Webster's dictionary defines 'fad' as a practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal : craze.As far back as I can remembe...

Five Wardrobe Essentials

Picture this. You’re sitting on the couch wondering what you’re going to do for the evening. Just then…*buzz buzz*… you look down at the couch wher...

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If No One Has Told You...

I woke up in the middle of the night, ugh I feel sick…,I thought as I reached for the water on my nightstand. I noted the early morning hour while ...

Favorite New Podcasts

There are three really spectacular things about today: 1.) It’s Friday, 2.) January is finally over and February is here, 3.) it’s time for anothe...

A Day in the Life at Royal + Reese

Have you ever wondered what a day at Royal + Reese looks like? Have you wondered what we do when we aren’t on videos or working throughout Facebook...

Whitney Wednesday: That one time we signed up for a 2 year old gym class

As first time moms, Tara and I had all these grandiose plans of taking our toddlers around town, to the park, library for their mommy and me classe...