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I am the keeper of the home movies.Not sure that anyone in my family knows this but I think I have every movie that at least my family (read Dad) ever filmed. Filming was a process back in the day. It was far from immediate and the film deteriorates over time. As a consequence, I have started the digitizing so we don't lose these "precious moments" in time.I mean, were they really precious? I suppose they are. You don't want to forget all those generations but movie taking was not great and my dad (although he loved the whole movie thing) liked to take lots of up close and personal shots. And movies were short and silent and mostly black and white. Still, the memories are created and we spend a lot of time talking about that during today's episode.Christmas memories, actually any memories are certainly affected by the passage of time. They mostly seem better than they were. Our brains like to take care of us that way.For instance, we had a fake tree. It was one of those silver (or maybe white) foil trees. Fake because my dad had emphysema and we couldn't have a live tree indoors. Mom loved that tree. She would decorate it with blue silk balls. Very 1950s/1960s style. We also had to open presents on Christmas Eve while my grandfather was living because he couldn't wait until Christmas morning. Also, he insisted on the entire family spending the day together and opening presents together whether we liked each other or not. That tradition continued until our families separated their holidays (after my grandfather passed) and our family started opening gifts on Christmas Day. Lots of opening of gifts in the movies.But no food features. Personally, I wasn't really interested in food back then. I was a child and I wouldn't eat anything. I know I've mentioned this before but I truly was the pickiest eater ever. I drove my mother crazy who prepared all the food for the holidays. So food was never a highlight of the home movies. Especially because we just weren't foodies back then at least not in the middle of the country.The takeaway from this home movie episode? Everyone looked old and serious even the teenagers. There were no food movies. And there were a lot of relatives, like them or not.Merry Christmas!