Motivating Students

Motivating students is challenging and laborious when we (the teachers) are not motivated.  At least, I am not motivated to teach.  I am motivated to finish the year, spend the mornings in bed for a while, smile at the sun because it's shining and I have time to do so, go to the beach, spend afternoons laughing with my children.  I am motivated to leave this time frame and enter another where I do not have to run the course of a schedule.  I can cook because I still have brain cells left at the end of the day to think of a meal.  Or I can cook dinner in the morning because I feel like that.   I don't know how to motivate students when I feel like this.  So, I give them more smiles, hugs and reasons to relax.  Maybe if I give them a semblance of tranquility, they'll give me some  back and I'll be motivated to return in two months :)