You don't have to really go on vacation. Just say you are and then stay at your mom's for a week. You wouldn't even have to take off work if you didn't want to. You need a break and she needs to know what she will see that the sunshine and roses she is imagining is bunk.
Me:49 W:45 M:19 T:22 EA confirmed and ended 8/2014 S:19,17 D:9,5