Messages-Trying to sync iMac, iPad and iPhone

Using ML and IOS 5.1.1
I'm able to send a message and get the message on my iMac, iPhone and iPad. But what is not happening anymore is getting the new message number that's attached to the Messages icon. And I'm no longer getting a notification in Notification Center on the Mac. Most of these issues began to happen when I changed the Caller ID on the iPhone to my Apple ID and not the phone number.
So what I'm trying to do is:
Get all devices to receive the same messages
Get a notification on the iMac
Receive an alert in the form of a number attached to the Messages icon on all 3 devices
That's not asking for to much is it 

Ralph - Thanks for the reply. I have notifications set up properly. 
I've got Notifications to work again by sending a new message to the iPhone using my Apple ID. But, after sending the message, I get double messages. Example:
I guess it's because I'm sending a message to a device that uses the same Apple ID.  The thing I don't understand is at one point before I started changing Settings/Messages on the iPhone, everything worked using the Phone # instead of the Apple ID, I was getting notifications on all devices and no double messages. Now if I send to the phone # I get no notifications.
I'm thinking it might be best for my wife's iphone to be set up with her own iCloud account.

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