What do you eat daily?

[Donovan]

The five-year-old is my GF's grandbaby but we are raising him. It is more relaxed except for the fact that both parents are trainwrecks and their intermittent attempts at parenting confuse the hell out of him and annoy us.

That would do way more than annoy me. I'd beat the shit out of my kid if I had to take care of their children because they couldn't be bothered until they felt like coming over once in a while to act like a parent. I wouldn't be able to deal with it. I wouldn't keep them from seeing their children, but every time they came over I'd let them know in private what sorry fucking scumbags they were.

It's a process for sure. I spent my days raging against my daughter. I am so over it. Addiction is a bitch. It sucks the potential right out of you. All that matters to me now is that the kids are beyond her reach. They are legally bound to me, and only me. And so each morning we roll out of bed and have our cheerios and bananas, and act like a normal family.

I won't lie, there are times when the urge to grab one or both by the neck and just...squeeze...is sometimes overwhelming. Especially the father, whose ideas of parenting include mainly "toughening him up so he don't turn gay." Fucking asshole. In those moments I am extremely thankful for my career that has taught me to remain calm and nonreactive to the most obnoxious stimuli. It helps to remember it isn't about me, or the parents: it's about the boy and what helps him best to get through the shitty hand life has dealt him.