About me? Yuck!

Barring my writing on the unfinished novel, I have to write an autobiography.  No, I'm not going on celebrity dish, planning on busting on everyone I've ever known in order to feel better and sell books.  It's a part of the paperwork I'm working on for the adoption process I'm going through right now.  And, boy is it a process!  On top of everything else, they want me to write an autobiography.  Dang!  I'm sure they don't want a book, but how do you compress 36 years into a few pages?  What's important?  What do I make sure to include and what do I definitely NOT include?  

I guess I should get started on that.