Mother Dear

I was playing “hangman” with Natalie the other day. She’s tough competition because she doesn’t always spell things correctly and sometimes she’ll use numbers or punctuation marks. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ can be “123wee!” Very tough code to crack. Anyway, I put down 5 spaces and after a half dozen incorrect guesses she asked for a hint. I told her it was her favorite thing in the whole world. She immediately wrote “M.” Apparently the hint was too good. She knew it and only had an "o" and a "y" left to guess.