i miss priming.
& making designs in the plaster on the walls.
& telling you to paint the ceilings because you were tall, but really i wanted you to work harder & i didn’t want to paint the ceilings myself.
i miss screaming at a spider while php was happening right outside our window.
& seeing spongebob in russian every morning.
& saying “priviet pizza” & “puhka pizza”.
i miss trying to understand what you were saying.
& when you invited us to the mountains with you.
& you bought us magnets.
& we hiked more than we expected.
& you told us how you had almost gotten stuck there at night on your honeymoon.
i miss eating watermelon on the back patio.
& throwing the soccer ball off the ledge.
& tima saying “hello”.
& lera watching us brush our teeth every morning and giggling.
i miss always getting to the younglife club late because people would forget to come get us or puza was late.
& grocery shopping that first or second day.
& then again the last day in a mad scramble for juice to bring home.
why did the juice there taste better?
i miss medina saying “whatsup baby”
& vanya being nice
& puza being crazy
& jos being funny
& valik correcting our russian.
i miss sitting around in the park after dinner.
& especially when they’d buy us ice cream.
& eating pizza every other night.
i miss taping off the windows.
& making a quilt of magazine pages. 
& getting paint and primer in my hair.
i miss hearing bits & pieces of people’s lives.
& seeing God’s grace at work.
i miss the farewell/thank you party you all threw us.
& watching your skits.
& singing in english as you sang in russian.
& lighting those lanterns and watching them float away in the dark, ukrainian sky.
i miss saying bye
& you pulling over the van full of people so you could run over and hug us all.
& everyone praying before we got on the bus.
& vitali showing up out of nowhere.
and i miss driving through the night.
& playing mafia.
& bathroom breaks along the side of the highway.
& living life for two weeks in a different country with beautiful people and looking back now seeing in bigger ways how God is working and how He loves.