Christmas in Melissa, TX

I took Jaden to the Christmas Celebration in Melissa tonight. It is going on every night until December 31st, but this is the first time we made it out. It is actually a fundraiser to raise money for Up to Par Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes awareness of teen suicide prevention. The organization is planning to use the money to have 30 assemblies in high schools around the area to educate schools about preventing teenage suicide (taken from the McKinney Courier Gazette Star). They were supposed to have real snow, but were not able to raise enough money. Instead they had a playground, 75 or so lit Christmas trees, a lit up maze through the 7 acres, Santa, and hot air ballon rides (on Fridays and Saturdays). Jaden was happy just playing on the play equipment and seeing Santa. The next day, I was talking with a friend, Dawn, who lives in Anna, too. She said that the fundraiser is actually going to help the man running the Christmas in the Park. She asked him where the money was going. He told her that is was going to help put together assemblies in schools in the area. When she asked what the money was actually being used for, he said it was to pay him for going around to all of the schools to speak... Hmmmmmmmmm... Watch out where you put your money. We didn't donate anything, but now seeing Jaden's picture with "Santa" (who is the man who put all of this together for his own gain) is kind of creepy. Therefore, I removed his picture from this blog.