Very much...
My Grandmother passed away 35 years ago, only a couple of months after I got married. Gram always made date nut bread at the holidays for all the family... It was an old family recipe that she never gave out. Grandpa decided that I should have her cookbooks, since I was a new bride. In it was her recipe, in her handwriting for the bread.
I decided to make it that 1st Christmas and was in my Mom's kitchen mixing it up. Suddenly, I feel her behind me, sitting at the table...and I hear in my head..."don't forget the vanilla"...I couldn't turn around, but out of the corner of my eye I could see her sitting there supervising.
I am the only one in the family that can make her bread taste the way it should...Her daughter and other grands have all made it, but it doesn't turn out like her's...I think she might have something to do with it.