I used to spend two weeks every summer in Dallas at my friend Vicki’s and her Mom would make these delicious bars and we would eat them on the road.  We were usually laying down in the back of their station wagon on what I thought was the longest trip from Oklahoma all the way to Dallas!  We had so much fun those hot summers.  I felt like part of the family.  I will never forget the time her and her sister talked me into piercing my ears (by the way – they did it for me by freezing my ear lobes with ice cubes and running a needle through my ears).  My Mother had said very clearly that I could not do this until I was 16 and… you guessed it – I was 15.  I was so afraid to go home that summer and face my Mother.  Seems like I always had a ride to Dallas but had to ride the train home every summer and Mother and Daddy would pick me up in Perry.  Well, that year, it was the worst ride ever but to my surprise, I really did not get in trouble and my Mother let me push some earrings through her ears that had not had any in for probably 15 years!  Surprise!