The sign above my garage says **CRAIG’S AUTO REPAIR** in uneven red letters.

My sons painted it.

Rick was seven.

Noah was four.

I bought a sheet of plywood, two cans of paint, and laid everything across a pair of sawhorses in the empty garage.

I penciled the letters.

The boys filled them in.

Noah painted the C in CRAIG’S and went outside the lines in every direction.

There’s still a red handprint in one corner where he leaned against the board before the paint dried.

Rick painted almost everything else.

Very carefully.