Fall=Less Energy - But More Determination!!

I can feel it in my bones! Fall is a coming! October is when my energy level usually takes a nose dive! During the summer I have endless energy and my muscles and joints don't hurt! Come October - when there is less sunlight - and more cloud cover - my joints and muscles hurt and I have to get more rest! That's usually when I have to be careful about how much sleep I am getting, regular massages and chiropractor visits, lots of vitamins - especially Vitamin D! I had my blood tested at the end of last winter and my vitamin D levels were really low-like grandma low! And I am in my mid-30's! Which I am sure doesn't help with my energy situation! Since my body thrives on sunlight - this year I am going to try a sun lamp during the fall and winter months. Not the cheap ones - I am investing in a nice one that you can mount on your wall. I really should be living in Arizona or California! My body does so much better in the Summer and in warmer weather! It's amazing! Fibromyalgia is the pits for me in the Fall and Winter. But I am learning how to cope with it - and I certainly don't let it keep me from living my life on my terms! Even on bad days - I have learned to live with the inconvenience of the muscle and joint pain and low energy. You only raise your kids once - and I am not going to miss anything!  I should be a weather girl for the news - because my joints and muscles tell me there is rain or cloud cover coming before it hits!  I am on the go type of girl and love to keep busy and on top of things - the pain I can handle - it's the frustration of my energy levels for me.  I never know when it's going to hit.  And I don't like being careful about how much rest I get.  I am a night owl and love to get things done at night while my kids are sleeping and I have the nice quiet house to myself!  Sometimes even though my body is tired, my muscles and joints won't relax, so I am up at night - and I usually just get things done that need to be done.  I do have muscle relaxers, but hate taking them.  I just work it out on my own terms!  I know - stubborn!!  That's the thing that is most frustrating about Fibromyalgia for me is that I am a planner, and I never know when I am going to have a flare up - or how long it will last - and that drives me up the wall.  I am finding that if I feel a flare coming - then I will take a nice hot jetted tub bath, and go to my chiropractor and then try and rest - which is really hard this time of year - with it being so busy with my kids activities - and I am generally not a nap kind of person.  I usually have a list of things to get done every day - and like to check things off my list every day!  I try to keep my stress levels down too.  Which is laughable to me!  I have 3 kids going in 10 different directions all at once!  I think the baby stage is easier!!!  But hey - you only live once!  I love being a busy mom!  I wouldn't have it any other way!  The busier I am, the happier I am - hence the not so happy about Fall and knowing my energy is diminishing with the sunlight that is staying less and less lighter every evening!  I told Toby we need to become snowbirds now!  I need a home in Arizona or California where I can go during the fall and winter months!  That would be heaven!!