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Hey there! We’re Dana (mom) and Brendan (son). We currently live in Phoenix, Arizona. We run the blog Sweet Shoppe Mom, where we write about everyday life with teens. We want to be the resource for busy families with tweens and teens. We want to help answer your questions about what should I do with my kids? or what should I cook? how can we make our household run better? or please help, I don’t understand what my teen is talking about.

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Dana’s story
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Dana Vollmer Sweet Shoppe Mom

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, I moved to San Diego for college at University of California – San Diego and stayed for 15 years minus one year in New York for graduate school. I moved to Arizona in 2006 and traded in my career as a molecular biologist  for the sweet shop business in 2007 when I opened Simply Sweets Cake Studio (that’s the Sweet Shoppe in Sweet Shoppe Mom). I then fell in love with blogging and social media after experiencing the power of it in successfully building my cake business. In 2012, I launched Sweet Shoppe Mom with plans to document building my own shop in Scottsdale after sharing a commercial kitchen for so many years while balancing motherhood.  However, running my own shop and being a parent didn’t allow for much time to blog about the personal side of the business so posts were sporadic.

In 2015 I decided to close the storefront so I could be more available to my son and was once again able to focus on blogging. As my son become a tween and now a teen, I noticed there was a lack of parenting blogs that address raising tweens and teens and we have continued to share our experiences and tips with our community. I shares my passion for cocktails, whiskey, local restaurants, and travel, on my second blog Cocktails and Cactus.

Dana Vollmer foodie

My sweets have been featured on the Martha Stewart television show, Phoenix Magazine, Arizona Brides, and Raising Arizona Kids. As a business owner, I was featured on GoDaddy’s national real customer campaign (television commercials, social media and corporate website), Raising Arizona Kids website and KTAR radio station. While I have closed up shop, I continue to find ways to make food fun using my creative cake decorating skills and love to share. For years this was the fun bento lunches I created for my son but unfortunately no teenager will show up school with a cute themed lunch so those days are gone. So mostly these days I used my skills for holidays and celebrations.

I love a good organizing project and my label maker is my favorite gadget. I love Anthropologie and am obsessed with shoes, especially boots yet I’m working towards a minimalist wardrobe (minus the shoes, lol). NYC is my favorite place to be but I also love the beach and the mountains. Bacon, BBQ and bourbon are my loves when it comes to eats and drinks.

About 6 years ago I was diagnosed with several food allergies including dairy. Because it is such a common food allergy and intolerance, I love to share eating dairy-free tips because so many people have asked how can I be a foodie with my food allergies. Happiness used to be a fresh baguette and a selection of cheese but once I gave it up, surprisingly I didn’t miss cheese. In fact, it helped me to discover really good food. Food has to be made with the best ingredients to taste good when you don’t smother it with cheese and cream sauce. Local restaurants are better able to accommodate food allergies and opened a whole new world to me.

Brendan’s story
@wheresbnow

Brendan teen influencer

Brendan is a teen (14) starting high school in the fall In Phoenix, AZ. Born in San Diego and moved to Phoenix when he was 6 months old. In his younger years he was a huge Scooby Doo fan, Nerf obsessed and loved collecting rocks out in our gorgeous Arizona deserts. He’s been playing baseball since he was 4 and just finished a successful but short (due to Covid-19 shutdown) baseball season on the middle school team.

Nerf blaster fan

In his teens years, he has put aside Scooby but still loves Nerf along with airsoft, Xbox (gamer tag @qfah), and TikTok (@qfahiscracked). He loves to visit NYC and to fish the lakes of Michigan. He’s a foodie and has judged 3 local food competitions (Arizona Taco Festival, Hotel Valley Ho’s Show Stopper Shake, and Hot Chicken Festival).

He’s becoming a fashionista, often dressed head to in Hollister, and loves the hypebeast and urban streetwear.

 

Santa Photo 2019

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Dana Vollmer
625 W. Deer Valley Rd
Ste 103-258
Phoenix, AZ 85027

 

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Hi there and welcome to Sweet Shoppe Mom. My name is Dana and my son is Brendan, also known as B. Welcome to our blog where we chat about every day life with tweens and teens.

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New plant pot and I’m in love. As a self describ New plant pot and I’m in love. As a self described #plantmom (or maybe #crazyplantlady 🤣) my collection has been growing but I find it hard to find great pots.

I just got this one from Amazon. Its actually ceramic even though it looks woven. I just posted an Amazon planter roundup on the blog including this one (link in profile)

🌱: Mini Monstera, Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma

#houseplants #plant #plantlove #myhome #homedecor #plantsofinstagram #planters #plantcollection
Cookbook ❤️. I collect them. I read them like Cookbook ❤️. I collect them. I read them like novels. I learn about food, culture, and health. They bring me joy.

I’ve heard many people no longer have cookbooks because they just get recipes on the internet. But I will never give up collecting. I recently purged and am down to about 150. They fill an entire wall of my pantry (my odd 5-sided pantry). 

I recently shared my updated pantry organization project on stories which included a peak at my cookbook wall and so many of you shared your love of cookbooks too. This prompted me to write a post sharing My TOP TEN Favorite Cookbooks on the blog today. Check it out - I’d love to hear if you own any of my favorites and what are your favorites. 

#cookbooks #cookbooklove #mypantry #pantry #myhome #momlife #homecook #cookbooks #cookbookaddict #arizonamom
Reese’que Business, definitely high on our list Reese’que Business, definitely high on our list as one of our favorites 😋

If you’ve followed us for awhile then you know one of our favorite traditions to going to the @hotelvalleyho for @eatatzuzu monthly Show Stopper Shake creation. We took a break when things got crazy but so excited to back dining at one of our favorites in Scottsdale. This month’s shake is full of Reese’s and Butterfinger goodness. So yummy and $1 of each shake goes to @azhelpinghands which provides essential needs to kids in foster care.

#hotelvalleyhopartner #hotelvalleyho #showstoppershake #milkshake #reeses #butterfinger #scottsdaleeats #scottsdaleresort #momofteens #boymom #momlife #arizonamom
Cheers to brunching on the patio. One of my favori Cheers to brunching on the patio. One of my favorite things to do is enjoy a meal from one of our local restaurants on the patio. We have a long patio season here (coming to an end soon as the Arizona heat kicks in). Even better with a cocktail. 

🍽: @eatdailyjam in Tempe, AZ

#dailyjampartner #tempe #tempearizona #tempeeats #bloodymary #cocktails #momlife #arizonamom #thisis50 #midlifemom
Hello Arizona ☀️🌵 I’ve been living in Ph Hello Arizona ☀️🌵

I’ve been living in Phoenix for 15 years now. We moved from Carlsbad, CA to Phoenix in April of 2006 when B was just a few months old. The desert landscape continues to amaze me. I grew up on the East coast and it’s such a contrast with the all the open space, the mountains, the desert scrub and of course the cacti. Though the saguaros often look like they’re flipping you off 🤣

Hello (1/30) #everydayphotoaday #photoadaychallenge 

#arizona #phoenix #scottsdale #cacti #saguaro #saguarocactus #desertlandscape
Looking for ways to get your kids to eat more than Looking for ways to get your kids to eat more than just candy on Easter? PEEPS Kabobs are so fun and (mostly) healthy. Super easy too!

@peepsbrand #peeps #fruitkabobs #healthysnacks #boymom #momoftweens #momofteens #arizonamom #easter #easterfood #funfood
@butcher_box delivery day is always a good day! 😀

** DEAL ALERT ** When you subscribe to Butcher Box now through April 4th, you will receive 2 lbs of ground beef for FREE in every box for the life of your membership. This is the deal we signed up for last year and love it - perfect for #tacotuesday.

Why we ❤️ Butcher Box:

* the beef is 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef

* delivered right to my door. No trip to the store and I have our meat for the month. Butcher Box has beef, pork, chicken and fish (I love the salmon)

* great for budgeting. My monthly subscription is what I put in our budget for meat each month. 

* arrives already individually wrapped and frozen. No prep work to get it ready for the freezer (Too often I’ve had to toss meat because I never got around to prepping it for the freezer).

To get the 2 pounds FREE ground beef for life deal, use the link in my profile (I’ll also link it in my stories).

#butcherboxpartner #homedelivery #meatdelivery #steaks #homecook #momofteens #boymom #arizonamom
Who else is munching on the Easter candy? Make sur Who else is munching on the Easter candy? Make sure to leave some for the 🐰 to hide.

What’s your favorite Easter candy? These @hersheys eggs are pretty taste. @reeses eggs are the BEST. I’m a huge @peepsbrand fan too.

🍃❤️ my Curly Spider is looking a bit crazy in the background 🤣

#eastercandy #spiderplant #curlyspiderplant #targetdollarspot #easterdecor #momlife #momofteens #arizonamom
#flashbackfriday to one of the Easter eggs we made #flashbackfriday to one of the Easter eggs we made last year. At the time this was all new to us and we were trying to figure how to navigate living through a pandemic. Now 1 year later the vaccine is rolling out. 

Arizona rolled back most restrictions this week but our family feels its too soon and we will continue to wear masks and only go to business that have safe practices in place. Schools are still requiring masks. 

While I am vaccinated it will be a few weeks until my immunity has built up. My son is not vaccinated and because he is 15 he has to wait until they are approved for his age. At this time we don’t have enough information on how effective the vaccine is (especially with the variants) if you’ve been vaccinated and what the possible transmission rate it. A vaccine is never 100% so precautions are always important. So for now, we will mask and distance.

#easteregg #momlife #boymom #momofteens #arizonamom #vaccine
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