It’s dinner time at Faye Robinson’s, and the food and love are flowing.
More than a dozen kids of all ages weave in and around the table alongside the adults.
“Kookoo, what about me?” little voices call out, as Robinson calmly ladles out food and cake.
It’s a fairly typical night for this 50-year-old grandmother, who is helping to raise 14 grandchildren in her Saskatoon home.
“The love is different, totally different from when you’re raising your own kids,” she said, picking up one child after another, cuddling the smallest ones in turns as they squeeze past her.
“The love is deeper — a deeper love.”
Over the past 14 years, Robinson and her husband Calvin have taken in more and more of their grandkids. Her five children have struggled with addictions, with two having died.
Her oldest son Patrick was …