19) Mittens

Overall, Anahera liked the cold place. Snow was fun, and she could make things from it - balls and snowdextro and shapes in the snow... It was a lot like sand, just cold, but very fun. Best of all was that there was hot chocolate after basically every time she played outside.

The only bad part of the cold place were all the things she had to wear before she went outside. The coat was much heavier than the raincoats she was used to, and the snow pants felt weird. Worst of all, however, were the mittens. What a dreadful thing they were - she couldn't even use all of her fingers when she wore them. She kept trying to sneak them off, but her mother seemed to notice every time she started to do so.

It was so frustrating! What mean person had invented mittens? She would have had some very strong words for them, if she had known who they were. Why would the only finger able to do anything be the thumb? Why were the other fingers all stuck together? Why didn't each finger get its own little space? It seemed very unfair even if she ignored the difficulty the mittens caused in general.

One day she would grow up and never have to wear mittens again.