A quart is 2 pints. A pint is sixteen fluid ounces of water and weighs about 16 ounces (avoirdupois weight.) A gallon is 4 quarts (8 pints) and thus weighs about 8 pounds. Five gallons would be about 40 pounds.
In some cases, if your mother is on Medicaid, she can designate you as her personal home care aide and you can get paid a small amount through Medicaid. If your mother has her own resources, you can draw up a contract agreeing to work as her home health aide and she can pay you a salary that you both agree upon.
After you bring a new baby into your family, you will probably want to spend as much time as you can with the little one before you go back to work. If you do not have paid leave through your job, save enough money to replace your income for the amount of time you plan to stay home with your new family favorite.For example, if you plan to stay home for three months, save three months' worth of income.rom diapers to child care to teen-age braces, middle-income parents can expect to pay more than $200,000 in expenses for one child over a period of 17 years, and a sizable portion of the spending starts in the first year, according to a report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2011.