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Quick question - what is the "holidays" setup in this particular business? I know it is a small family run store, but there is a basic standard of 2 weeks per year of paid holidays when a person is new in a full-time job. That goes up with experience/seniority, but even part time shmoes flipping burgers for MacDonalds deserve a few days off in a row now and then. For example I was getting 6 weeks paid vacation per year in my last job before I quit - however that was after something like 24 or 25 years of full-time employment. And it was mandated (by the government as part of our national health directive) that I had to take at least 2 weeks of that accrued vacation time, and those 2 weeks had to be consecutive ones.
If you haven't taken 5 days off for yourself in a row for a while you are probably overdue. It doesn't matter what the reason is you want time off, or what you plan to do with that time. I don't care if you spend your holiday sitting on a park bench feeding pigeons for the whole time.
You do with your vacation what you will, it is no business of your employers no matter who they are or what their relationship to you is. That being said, you don't play hard ball with family, or hard ass with parents unless they give you no alternative.
I believe it is in your court, but as tasineah says we don't really have all the info to properly advise you. I do advise though, don't be a doormat. It is easy through nature and nurture to be overly accommodating towards parents and seniors in general, especially for Asians - a cultural strength that at times is misused and can really cost the individual.
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