Too Pretty to Use

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For Christmas this past year my artist-daughter gave me some beautiful, hand-painted wine glasses. She knows I enjoy a glass of wine and she knows that I love her artwork. Unfortunately, I have a conundrum. I don’t want to use them, I want to put them in a place where I can see them and where they are safe. I have kept some of the tissue paper they were wrapped in because the white creates a nice background for her artistry. Everyone else received hand-painted Christmas ornaments. She knows me well enough that I suspect she is aware of the problem that she created for me. It is pretty, it is practical, but the gift is also very, very fragile. So far the solution has been simple. The only wine I have consumed since Christmas has been Glühwein. Warm, mulled wine which I usually drink from that wooden-handled mug I wrote about a few days ago. The weather is warming up, the Glühwein stash will eventually run out. When I go back to drinking chilled white wine I will have to decide. What would you do?