A pleathora of punchbowls

Mom is in the process of going through all her accumulated stuff and either packing it or disposing of it. Everyone does this every time they move, but since Mom and Dad are moving from an independent situation where they did a lot of entertaining to assisted living, there are more than the normal number of decisions to be made.

One decision was what to do with the nice cut glass punchbowl and matching cups. My parents used it to do things like have a church choir Christmas party or an open house for the whole church. (Remember, Dad was always a United Methodist preacher.) We kids were often the punch bowl functionaries, and many a beverage have I ladeled from that bowl.

Mom has always been proud of her punchbowl, (rightly - it is pretty!), but what to do with it now? So she decided to donate it to a chuch. When asked, my church said they could use it