I don't think I could take too many days of the "family" though. My mother is enough for one day!
You'll get there Wabbit. Just like you can already laugh at the absurdity of some of the things your mom says on the phone, you will eventually be able to stand back as an observer and marvel at the dysfunction and chaos and wonder how these people survived this long.
My grandmother used to tell me "You have a choice in life of whether to laugh or cry. It's always better to laugh." It probably explains my gallows humor
My grandmother was an amazing lady - how she survived the toxicity she was surrounded by is beyond me - by laughing, I guess.
She used to like to write dirty limericks, which her sons would chastise her for. In her will, she wrote one of the dirtiest limericks I've ever read (original composition by her) concerning a camel and its hump. I know she did it laughing the whole time.
You've come so far already, I wouldn't be surprised to hear you laughing at the absurdity soon, even when your mom is staying with you. Oh sure, the laughing is interspersed with jaw grinding annoyance, but the laughter takes some of the sting out of it.