My family decided to do remote work and school—remotely—for a month. We sincerely hope this will be the only pandemic any of us see in our lifetimes, and we decided to find some good in the fact that the kids are schooling through Zoom and my husband hasn’t stepped foot into his office for nine months. His official office is now housed in our master bedroom closet, luckily it has windows.

We didn’t know what we’d find by packing up and heading to a warmer climates for four weeks in the midst ...