Lindsay's Lipsmackin' Soup

Hey y'all!! I've been asked for this recipe SO many times... At least 25... And I always say, "I'll give it to you as soon as I write it down..." Well, the long awaited moment has come!! Here is the recipe for my Soup:

Ingredients:
4 cups chopped, cooked chicken meat (Tastes best from the breast meat of a Rotisserie Chicken from Costco)
14 cups of water in a big stock pot
About a tablespoon of butter or margarine (not needed, but makes it taste scrumptious)
10 1/2 - 11 chicken bouillon cubes
1/2 tsp dried marjoram (heaping)
1/2 tsp ground black pepper (heaping)
1 Tblsp dried parsley (heaping)
Some crushed bay leaf (about an index finger print worth in your palm)
6 cups (ish) dried egg noodles (more or less, depending on how much broth you like in your soup)
2 cups (ish) frozen mixed vegetables

In large stock pot, add water and bouillon cubes (and butter if you wish). Simmer over med-high heat while tearing apart the chicken meat into bite sized pieces (best done by tearing it). Add chicken, spices, and
frozen vegetables to stock pot and simmer over medium heat for about 30 minutes.

Add egg noodles to stock pot and simmer for another 10 minutes.

***Do not add egg noodles until 10 minutes before you serve the soup otherwise the noodles will cook too long and get mushy. If you decide to freeze it, freeze without the noodles.

Serve and enjoy!! Makes about 8-10 servings that go great with biscuits :-)

-Lindsay

What Was I Thinking???

So... for my first real post - I'm going to show you what I've been doing today... Why the title, you ask? Well, I'm kicking myself in the head (not really - my foot won't reach that far) for procrastinating on starting our business federal taxes until April... When we have to pay, it seemed logical in my head to wait until the last minute because I didn't want to do it. Well, now I'm paying for it!!

This is what my living room looks like right now...

Seems like a lot, right??? Well, that wasn't the end of it... 

My "darling" husband couldn't be prouder that this is how he stores his receipts... 

Now, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the most organized person in the world... But really??? I guess I should be happy that he at least saved them, right? Every year that I do the taxes at the last minute, I tell myself, "Next year I'm going to do them in January and be more organized." Mmm Hmm... Keep telling yourself that, right??? With three kids and balancing Ministry and running the Business and keeping up our home - I seriously doubt that next year will be any different... I think I seem to work better under pressure and at the last minute anyway... right?

The first year we started our business, we had a "professional" do our taxes... $850.00 and three weeks later, they were done without even giving us all the deductions that I had researched... Hmmm... Since then, I've insisted on doing them myself instead of paying someone to do what I can do for free :-) BUT - It took a lot of patience and trial by error to be able to do them properly (If I do, lol)... I have a serious phobia of being audited so I keep everything!

Well, I won't attach any other pictures of what the rest of the house looks like right now... Wouldn't want you to think that we were animals :-) 

-Lindsay

I finally did it!

Hey friends!! I finally started a blog! Woot!! Now, I just need to remember to post to it and share all my projects and life stories with the world! Ha ha... The design is still in progress, but please become a follower and I'll promise to post something amazingly spectacular in the near future ;-) Talk to you soon!

~Lindsay