“Merry Christmas it’s unfermented wine,” he captioned thephoto, which shows Chapman posing with four family members as they hold up glasses of red wine.
Last week, theDog’s Most Wantedstar opened up toEntertainment Tonightabout honoring his late wife’s favorite Christmas traditions as they prepared to celebrate their first without her.
“Every little ball that’s on the tree, every ornament, you know, there’s 20 years plus of ornaments on that tree, so as I hung [them], I remembered where and when we bought each one,” he said.
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One of Beth’s most revered holiday rituals, Chapman said, was to sing carols with her daughters.
“Beth knew every single [Christmas song], and she made us all listen to Christmas songs like two weeks before Christmas … every night before we went to bed she’d put them on,” he toldET. “So I think the girls are taking it the hardest without being able to sing with mom.”
According toTMZ, the family also planned to prepare several of Beth’s own recipes this year in honor of the matriarch, who used to do the cooking for the big day. Some of those dishes include deviled eggs with jalapeños, sweet potatoes and homemade apple cider.
In August, ChapmantoldPEOPLE Nowthat some of her kids are “barely making it” without their mom: “Each one copes differently, there is a few that are really barely making it. … We don’t know what to do … we weren’t prepared.”
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The family celebrated Thanksgiving together last month with Duane in charge of the turkey-making duties — a concept hetold PEOPLE“freaked out” his children, who were skeptical of his cooking abilities.
“Several family members are coming for the meal and my children are all freaked out because I’m cooking,” he said ahead of the holiday. “The daughters will be bringing other dishes to go with the turkey. We always realize what the day of Thanksgiving means, so we all talk about the main thing we are thankful for.”
He added of carrying on family traditions: “I will never, ever be the same emotionally, because there’s a huge piece of my heart that isn’t there anymore. But I have to remain Dad and the Dog.”
source: people.com
