Surviving Christmas
Cate & Ty Break It Down
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Cate & Ty barely make it to 2026 after surviving a brutal week of sickness. They recap hospital visits, delayed Christmas presents, and giving thanks to Tyler's mom for holding down the house throughout the chaos. Nova turns 11! Cate describes their planned birthday outing that started getting a little expensive. They also discuss their lack of interest in NYE parties and going out, and Tyler's love for Irish Goodbyes. Facebook misinformation strikes again, this time hitting close to home with Cate's Grandparents. She shares a recent story that gets Tyler heated.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome back to another episode of Kate and I break it down. |
| 0:14.3 | I hope that everybody is feeling well and doing well. |
| 0:18.2 | Because we just... |
| 0:19.8 | I feel like we can't catch a damn break. You know how many times we have talked about sickness? Guys, we all... In the last few weeks? We all got fucked. We just got fucked. The whole house got fucked. Well, Christmas sucked. It sucked. It really sucked this year. And it was nothing to do with, like but just being, everyone was sick. Everybody. Like our youngest didn't even open her presence on the, half of them she didn't. Half of them she just left them for the next day because we were just so deathly ill. Actually, I think it was like two days later she opened them. Like they sat there for two days. Influenza A is just. Yeah, and it was like, and before that, like we just this, this year of sickness in our house has been pure hell. But then it's like, you know, we're like big time Christmas people here. We get so excited for Christmas. We love it. We go all out. We, it's one of our favorite holidays. Yeah. And I always look forward to Christmas every year and this |
| 1:13.1 | year just literally sucked like there was a moment in time where I was like super sick and the kids |
| 1:19.5 | are asking me for eggs and I'm like okay I'm going to make eggs and I go to put the pepper on the eggs |
| 1:23.6 | and I twist the wrong top and black peppercorns go flying all over the kitchen. And my |
| 1:30.9 | mother-in-law comes upstairs. And I'm like sobbing because I'm sick trying to make eggs and now |
| 1:37.8 | I'm cleaning up fucking peppercorns. And I'm using this stupid wet vacuum thing that I fucking |
| 1:42.1 | hate. I hate it. You're so excited to buy that |
| 1:45.0 | fucking thing. And it's the worst one I've ever bought in. And so I'm trying to use that to suck it up. |
| 1:49.5 | and it hits my my like foot mat in front of the stove and the top flies off and I was just literally I was crying and my mother's most like Kim she's like are you okay and I'm like no and I don't even |
| 1:55.4 | know why I'm crying |
| 2:01.2 | and but it was hell it started off bad it started off like a couple days before Christmas |
| 2:02.2 | Veda she was having like super high fever's she was the first one that had something going on |
| 2:08.6 | and then I felt like we were good for like two days yeah she had the had the super high fever though. I took her to urgent care. For 104. Yeah. Actually, you were sleeping or whatever, but I had her in the morning and she was at like 10, she was at like 103 or something like that. So I gave her Thailand on all. I was right in the morning. I'm saying, all right, I'm going to give it a half hour |
| 2:13.6 | to kick in, |
| 2:34.3 | whatever. |
| 2:34.8 | And she's literally sleeping. |
| 2:36.3 | And this kid doesn't just sleep. |
| 2:37.4 | No. |
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