IT was December, Sarah couldn't get to sleep. She was looking out of her window. The snow was a deep as a car.

She knew that tomorrow School would be closed. "The snow is so deep that only an Eskimo could walk in it" Sarah remarked.

She soon drifted off to sleep. Dreaming, dreaming that she had her very own white pony. Sarah's dad knew what to give her at Christmas, he was in the scrappy garden shed while Sarah was at school. The at home time, Sarah's dad went to pick her up, he was leaning on the school gate looking pleased. When Sarah came over to him, he said excitedly "There is a surprise for you at home" he giggled. Dad wouldn't tell Sarah what the surprise was, for one wild, ridiculous moment Sarah thought the surprise was a pony...

Sarah was at home sitting on the sofa waiting for her surprise, she had her eye's closed and almost expected to hear the sound of polished hooves on the floor, but that sound didn't come instead her dad said "you can open them now" She opened her eyes and saw a toy pony, a wooden one. "Thanks dad" she exclaimed. "So what are you going to call him?" Sarah thought for a moment "he isn't a he, she's a she and her name is Snowy" "I hoped you would say that" dad sighed with relief. "Why?" she said questionably "I'll show you. He led her upstairs into her bedroom. In there was a stable. "It's a stable for Snowy" She remarked. It had a sign above it saying Snowy with white coloured paint "I can look at my pony in her stable." The at Christmas Eve it was twelve o'clock and Sarah was awakened by the sound of a hoof stomping impatiently. Snowy was dressed up as a reindeer with a sledge behind her she was real!