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.
If the single mother also happens to have a low, or no, income and not a lot of assets then they might be entitled to âbostadsbidragâ to assist housing costs and âfÃ¶rsÃ¶rjningsstÃ¶dâ (paid by the local muncipality) to sort out other living expenses.