I have so many beautiful friendships with women I've never met in person. Most of which I'll likely never meet in person, or maybe never even speak to on the phone.

We share each others lives through our blogs and personal email. We send cards and sometimes gifts. We share our hearts and our hopes and our pain and our kids and our deep thoughts.

And it's so very special.

For without these special ladies, I'd have no tribe.

But I must admit that I wish desperately for a tribe of local ladies. A group of close friendships, with like-minded Mother's, that live in driving distance from me.

Women that would come together once a month, or more, for drinks or dinner or shopping. Women that would always be there for each other in the tough times and in the great times. Women that would love my kids as much as I did theirs.

Ladies that were all close and share something deep.

I've never had that. Not really. I've had a few close friendships, but never a real tribe of women that all knew each other and loved each other in that way.

I know it exists, but it continues to elude me.

I'll meet really special women and they'll always end up living hours, or states, or even oceans away from me.

And that was always okay with me growing up. Maybe I'm a bit of a loner by nature. Maybe I adopted some of that from my own Mother, who has never had any really close friendships with women. Maybe it's learned, or just my personality, or just plain bad luck.

Whatever the reason, I just know that the older I get the more I want my own tribe. Now that I have children, work from home, am married… I want those bonds with women more than ever. People that I can relate to and they relate to me.

So, I suppose it's time I do something about that… they won't come knocking on my door. But putting yourself out there, even if you knew where to find such friends, has never been something I can easily do. Not only that, but I think the Internet has ruined me a bit on offline friendships.

Blogging allows you to get to know someone right away. You can look through all their past blog posts, see what they tweet about, and get a really good feeling for whether you'd clique or not.

Offline there is no such thing. Unless you're blessed enough to have best friends who also blog.

So, you see, here I am stuck in the middle of wanting something, and being totally unsure as to how to get what I want. Or if I'd really, really want it once I had it. After all, I've never experienced a large, super close group of girlfriends before.

Friendships are super important. And becoming even more so the older I become.

So if there's anyone out there with young children, who works from home, and blogs, and tweets, and loves God, and is passionate about eating healthy and living healthy AND lives in my area… lets meet! HA! Now that is a tall order, isn't it?