Couple welcome to join our small family in Mallorca, Spain

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  Description

  Hello!
  We are a 50-year-old mother, Tracy, and an 8-year-old girl, Lía. We have recently moved house to a quaint town called Binissalem and we love it here! The town is on the train line with a good mix of local and international residents.
  
  At home we speak English, but I speak Spanish fluently and Lía is learning it. I'd be super happy if you speak Spanish so Lía can practice more but English is also ok.
  
  Our new house is great and very comfortable. It is not a building site, but there are a few things which a handy person could help with in terms of improvements, like a bit of painting, and a few odd jobs here and there, depending on your skills.
  
  Ideally, right now I would love to manifest a couple - one with good DIY skills, very confident using a drill to leave little jobs very well done. Maybe some painting.
  The other could help with domestic tasks, cooking, cleaning, order in the home, and also help me to organise the items I would like to upload to websites to pass on in the second hand markets.
  
  Although generally childcare is not required, bets of you enjoy the company of a fun and curious child.
  
  COOKING is a must. I can usually manage to stay on top of cooking healthy meals for me and Lía but don't want any Workaways who need me to cook for them. But we can also do things together. if there are 2 of you, depending on what others tasks are a priority, I may ask you to cook certain things.
  
  The new house has a yoga room! But it's still messy and needs some more organisation. If you are creative maybe you can help paint a mandala or something beautiful on the wall. Depending on your skills we will find things you can help with.
  We also have a small garden / patio and if you're good with plants you can definitely help me out there.
  
  If you enjoy cooking healthy food this is a skill I very much appreciate!
  We eat meat. I also love vegetarian dishes if you can produce things that Lía likes, or on the days Lia is not home. We eat mostly wheat free at home and avoid processed sugar and other highly processed foods.
  
  Here's a bit about us:
  
  I strive to live life from a place of love and truth. Some of the tools that help me on this path are yoga, dance, meditation and tantra.
  
  Lía is a lively, curious, intelligent, fun and affectionate girl, who loves the company of children and grown-ups and playing, laughing, painting, being in the garden inventing a potion, building fairy houses, but also climbing, jumping and doing more adventurous things.
  
  Lía lives 5 days with me and 2 days with her father, she normally goes from Tuesday to Thursday with him. Some weeks if he travels, she is with me every day. She is at school from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday.
  
  Childcare is not really a big part of what I require from workaway but of course, living together you would sometimes hang out with her. I work from home.
  
  I am an early bedder! We go to bed between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. every day, we read a story, and when Lía falls asleep, I usually go to bed too. Then I usually wake up quite early. Lia wakes up around 8 a.m. So we ask for quiet during our sleeping hours - how god are you at moving like a silent ninja?
  
  The new house is large, has 3 floors, 3 bedrooms plus the big yoga room. It has 2 bathrooms and 1 toilet downstairs. It has an outdoor covered terrace and a small exterior patio.
  The guest bedroom is on the top floor with nice views and this is where you would sleep, with a comfortable double bed. I sometimes rent the guest room to friends of friends travelling to the village so it's possible that if I get the opportunity to do that during your stay, I might ask you to sleep in the yoga room (on a comfortable mattress!).
  
  NON-SMOKERS ONLY PLEASE. If you have any questions, let me know!
  
  INTERNET: We have fibre optic, the router is on the ground floor but the signal doesn't reach the top floor where the guest bedroom is.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  Interests

  

  Sustainability

  

  Charity work

  

  Self development

  

  Culture

  

  Events & social

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Languages

  

  Books

  

  Mountain

  

  Dancing

  

  Adventure sports

  

  Nature

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Fitness

  

  Camping

  

  Beach
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  I am a yoga teacher, although I am not currently practicing. I am also an advocate for births without interventions. I gave birth to Lía at home, in water, almost completely without assistance. I am willing to share my knowledge and experience in this area. When I have time, I love to talk about my experience with consciousness. I also enjoy talking about conscious relating and conscious parenting, the different ways I am raising Lia, trying to be as respectful as possible and giving her a lot of freedom to develop her own spirit and find her way in this world, while also setting boundaries, which she needs to feel safe. Not always an easy task!
  
  Soy profesora de yoga, aunque actualmente no estoy ejerciendo. También soy defensora de los partos sin intervenciones. Di a luz a Lía en casa, en el agua, casi completamente sin asistencia. Estoy dispuesta a compartir mi conocimiento y experiencia en esta área.
  
  Cuando tengo tiempo, me encanta hablar sobre mi experiencia con la consciencia. También disfruto conversar sobre la crianza consciente, las diferentes formas en las que estoy educando a Lia, tratando de ser lo más respetuosa posible y dándole mucha libertad para desarrollar su propio espíritu y encontrar su camino en este mundo, al mismo tiempo que establezco los límites que necesita para sentirse segura. ¡No siempre una tarea fácil!

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  Projects involving children

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  Help

  COOKING ON YOUR FREE DAYS Preparing food is part of life. You will be one of the family and we will share the house and kitchen tasks. When you have a free day, if you're at home, you still have to cook your own food.
  
  FREE TIME AT HOME Although I don't usually look at "schedules" and count the hours worked and so on but will trust you to keep track; if you are not on "working" hours, if we are all at home, Lía will surely want to be close to you . I hope you enjoy being with her. If you get along very well, I may leave you in charge of her at some point, and this is obviously considered "working hours", but it is not the main intention of your stay. When we go out and about, in general it will not be necessary for you to come, but if we all get along, you will often be invited to accompany us and we will try to show you something interesting. Sometimes we eat out; If you want to join us, you will normally be expected to pay your way.
  
  COCINAR EN TUS DIAS LIBRES
  Preparar la comida es parte de la vida. Serás uno/a de la familia y compartiremos las tareas de la casa y de la cocina. Cuando tienes día libre, no hace falta que cocines si no estás por casa pero si estás por casa, igual te toca cocinar igual que otro día cocinaré yo por ti.
  
  TIEMPO LIBRE POR CASA
  Aunque no suelo mirar "horarios" y contar las horas trabajadas y demás, si no estás en horario "laboral", si estamos todos por casa, seguramente Lía querrá estar cerca de ti. Espero que disfrutes estando con ella.
  Si os lleváis super bien, igual en algún momento te dejo a cargo de ella, y esto obviamente se considera "horario laboral", pero no es la intention principal de tu estancia.
  
  Cuando salimos por ahi, en general no será necesario que vengas, pero si nos llevamos todos bien, estarás siempre invitada a acompañarnos e intentaremos ir a enseñarte algo interesante.
  A veces comemos fuera; si quieres venir, tu cuenta será generalmente a tu cargo, aunque a veces te invitaré.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  French: Intermediate
  Catalan: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
  You can contact them directly for more information.
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  Accommodation

  Our house has 3 floors.
  Ground floor: Living / Dining space with adjoining kitchen and toilet. Covered terrace leading down to a small outdoor patio.
  First floor: Lía's bedroom, Tracy's bedroom (ensuite), office and main bathroom.
  Top floor: Guest bedroom and yoga room (yoga room not ready yet!)
  
  The house has good energy. It's just a 5 minute walk from the village square and from the train station.

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  What else ...

  If you have more questions, I will be happy to answer you! Thanks for reading our profile! Hugs, Tracy.
  
  
  Si tienes más preguntas, estaré encantada de contestarte!
  Gracias por leer nuestro perfil!
  Un abrazo, Tracy.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  I work from home, sometimes in the office on the first floor and sometimes in the living / dining room or outside on the terrace. We can easily share spaces if you are also working from home but see note above about internet in the guest bedroom.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Parking in this area is generally easy, so you would be able to park a van on the street near the house. It's a safe area.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  It depends, ask me!

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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