Life on a family compound

My husband and I are raising our daughter on a family compound right next door to both my parents and my siblings. While we go on a pre-dinner walk around the compound, let's chat about our favorite things. For starters, we wake up all together in the same place for every holiday, especially Christmas morning, which is super important to us. I don't have to miss any of my younger siblings first, like coming home from their first day of school and sharing all the stories that I grew up listening to. Our golden retriever Ollie can head over to my parents' house any day of the week to play with their two dogs and get to socialize. I don't have to worry about squeezing in a shower or a workout when my husband's not home because any of my siblings or my parents are around to hang out with Mary Kate. We get to have family dinners pretty much every weekend. Friday and Saturday nights are practically reserved for hanging out with each other. If you forget to grab something when you're at a grocery store, there's a 99% chance that somebody on the property has something you can borrow. Speaking of borrowing, there are also multiple closets you can grab clothes from instead of just yours. If you go on vacation, you've a built-in house sitter and pet sitter and delivery drivers are never short on signatures because there's almost always someone home to sign for a package.