Split Pea Soup

I had a left over ham bone from Sunday's dinner of baked ham and Monday's dinner of Scalloped Potatoes and ham that I decided to try my hand at homemade split pea soup. I love peas but nobody else in my family likes them. So by bff Cindy and I get together every week and make things our families won't eat that have lots of veggies and things they won't eat.
Well, my soup came out so good, I was so proud of myself.

I took two different recipes and made my own soup.
Boiled my ham one in 6 cups of water for an hour and then just let it sit till I was ready to make my soup.
took the meat off the bone, and removed at much fat from the broth that I could.
cut the meat into bit size pieces, along with the leftover ham.

This is one of the recipes I modified, the other was on the back of the pea bag.

1 lb bag of slit peas, rinsed and sorted
1 can of chicken broth
5 cups water of which I used the broth I made with the ham bone and what ever I was lacking I used water
2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed I didn't add these
2 large onions, chopped
2 medium carrots, bite size
2 cups cubed cooked ham
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon rubbed sage
1/2 to 1 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoon dried thyme

Throw everything in the pot, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, stirring occasionally.