if you ask me , they know a good thing when they see it.-bruce is a real catch for them and they have sense enough to know it.-lydia , who hated bruce with a passion until a little over a year ago , couldnt find enough nice things to say about him at this point.-she realized now that bruce was the best thing that could have happened to her daughter.-but , oh , how she had resented them both for eloping and getting married in the first place.-and then they had made their home in ireland and that had definitely caused a real rift.-then johnny , their son , her grandson , had come back to kentucky and made his home with her and from there had fallen in love with chrissy , their neighbor.-grandmother lydias heart had finally thawed out and she was a completely different person now ; and how grateful everyone was for that !