Thank you, I’ll correct those errors.
The audience is 7 to 11 year old children.
Lesson and purpose? Hmm, good question.
I guess to know where you live and listen to mom about going home before it gets dark.
It’s a story to entertain, and it is based on a true event in my life, so i am glad it came off as believable.
You always end up at home because the love of home/scent of cookies/ is a magnet that draws you there, even if you think you are just wandering about. Wherever your feet take you, wherever you are at Christmas (or any other time?) well, “that” is “home” because your feet or instinct took you there. A good way to assign a larger meaning to any experience in life is to look at the real experience “as-if” you dreamed it and are wondering why you would have dreamed it. By doing this, many layers of meaning will bubble up to the surface. In this case, “took home for granted, didn’t pay attention to “time” and lost track and then got a sense of all is lost and realization of how important it all is.