I LOST Something REALLY Important!

Well, this thing has really got me in it's awful grasp right now.  I am in desperate need, and I mean truly desperate need of my birth certificate.  I can't renew my driver's license without it.  My house is too disorganized and cluttered for me to find it.  I try to keep all the important paperwork together, but something always slips through.  I know I have seen it--at least I'm pretty sure I have seen it since I moved into this house almost 4 years ago.  But that leaves a lot of narrowing down to do.  I went through all the places I usually stash paperwork and didn't find it.  I found all my divorce papers, mortgage papers, my truck's title, the kid's IEPs for the last 5 years, 2 savings bonds, 2 uncashed checks (over 2 yrs old) and tons of other papers I didn't want or didn't know I had.  But no birth certificate.  I'm not sure if I can get a duplicate because I was adopted and that is supposed to require a court order to open the records first.  I need to renew now!

I'm pretty upset about this and really angry about myself over how I let these things happen.  I am slowly (quite slowly) decluttering my house and I'm sure I will find it eventually but probably too late.  You have any idea the things that you CAN'T do without a driver's license?  I can't even get an ID card as the requirements to get that are...drum-roll...a birth certificate.  It would be fine if I had a military ID I could use that--but I don't.  Also a passport, but of course I don't have one of those either.  I feel so stuck.  I even took a day off of work so I would have time to look without the children here--I looked all day.  Not sure where else to look, thinking maybe in my room--maybe the closet?  Does it look like I will have any luck looking in the closet in the picture?  I don't know.  Keep your fingers crossed for me.  I can't prove I'm me now but I still have to pay taxes even though it's this state's tougher requirements that won't let me get my renewal without it.  OK, stop that, it's not the state of Florida's fault, it's mine.  I accept responsibility.  Thank you.  But that doesn't help me does it?  What if I never find it?  Sigh.  Lost.