11.1.19 Getting out of bed was hard this morning. Way hard. I was tired. It was early. I was cold. And it was the day after Halloween -- which, for my non-educator friends out there, is undoubtedly one of the more difficult teaching days of the school year. I hit snooze about 5 times, even though I knew my classroom was a disaster, I had copies to make before school, and I had to stop at the grocery store on the way to work to pick up popsicles for a classroom reward. When I