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.
Government assistance can be hard to come by. Many hardworking single parents earn too much to qualify for benefits like food stamps, but earn too little to actually get by each month.If this describes your situation, know that help is available, and that you're not alone.ake a look at these figures, representing the amount of money a typical single parent with one child has left over to pay for food, after factoring in the cost of housing, health care, transportation, and child care 1  : In Toledo, OH: $32. 2  In Fort Work, TX: $35. 3  In Birmingham, AL: -$92.