Happy Children´s Day!!!

I love the date! Children´s day makes me think that my parents have done the right thing. What I am now has probably lots to do with what they taught me and gave me at that time. 

I was one of those happy children who had love, attention, protection, support, stories that were read to me in bed, songs to put me to sleep, brothers who made me company and played with me all day long... 

As I only had brothers, I was the kind of naughty girl who would accept to be part of a soccer team, who would play basketball, handball, baseball, I would go to all wild and scary roller-coasters because all I wished was to be close to my brothers. I wanted them to be proud of me and think to themselves: "wow, my sister is wicked"!

And my childhood was exactly like that: full of adventures, games, nice stories, friendship, fun, loyalty, laughter, endless love... Plenty of happy memories. :o)

So, this is me some years and years ago... Looking pretty much the same, right? hehe

Social language

Do you know some expressions that you can use when it´s necessary to say you are only kidding and people shouldn´t take you too seriously? 

What about the opposite? What can you say if you want people to believe you and reinforce that you aren´t joking this time? 

I came across this table of "Being light x Being serious" when going through the pages of "New Routes". I suppose it can be useful to all of you. Check it out:

And now let´s imagine that Smudge and Monica could make use of one of these expressions after this childish argument: