typical friday for a nontypical family

It is Friday, so that means Speech Therapy for SJ.  Usually on Fridays, I go home after picking up the boys from school.  We wait for my husband to get home and then SJ and I head off to speech.  My husband wasn't going to be home in time tonight, so we went directly there.  I knew we had some extra time, so I told the boys we could eat first.  SJ likes to go to Mickey D's on speech days, but Bob is burnt out on that.  He asks if we can go to Sonic (which SJ does like!), but SJ starts to have a tantrum in the car.  I like Sonic too, so I announce that is where we are going.  He is insisting on going to Mickey D's.  As I am listening to SJ's tears, I can tell that Bob feels he is going to have to eat at SJ's choice.  This now starts a chain reaction of Bob complaining as SJ continues to cry.  Now, I know I should tell SJ too bad and the tears don't affect me.  But that would be a lie.  As usual, I compromise.  Bob and I order from Sonic and then drive down the road to Mickey D's for SJ.  Suddenly, all is calm in the car.  We sit in silence in the parking lot of the speech therapy building and eat our typical Friday dinner.  One of these days I will stand my ground and fight out the dinner war, but today was not that day.  SJ and Bob 1...Mom 0.