Home made soup

Mike's mom and I talked on the phone the other day. She offered us some ham bones to use for making home-made soup. I commented that Mike would probably enjoy making some bean soup, and added that I don't make soup from bones. I tend to use purchased broth, because I make soup from leftover meat.

Today, Mike's mom gave him the soup bones and a stack of magazines. The magazines were all cooking magazines and had pictures of bowls of soup on the cover. (I am sure that this wasn't planned.) I jokingly told Mike that she must feel sorry for him because I don't make completely-from-scratch soup and she must feel that he is deprived.

Mike commented, "Don't feel too bad, my mom made lousy soup too." He may never live down that little zinger!