Life in rhymes

Before we had children our Christmas newsletter was always written in rhyme. It started when I sat down to write our first joint newsletter and my husband grumbled that every suggestion I made for the first line was either too cliched or jumped in too abruptly into our news. We switched back to prose after Jessica's arrival - discussing her heart condition and surgeries in rhyme felt too flippant. This year, life has felt more 'normal' and although I wasn't originally planning to write a rhyming newsletter somehow I couldn't resist the challenge. Not sure I'll manage it every year though!