Inside the blissful family world of Julia Roberts as a mother of 3 teenagers – News Block

It’s not that Hazel, Finn (as mom and dad call him) and their brother EnriqueBorn June 18, 2007, he had no variety of clues from an early age that his parents didn’t have typical 9-5 work schedules, either because of traveling or playing on movie sets and dressing up in the broadway theatre. rooms, or have the occasional Oscar winner (other than his mom) stop by his Malibu house, where they’ve lived since they became a family of five.

“We’re grateful for the feeling we have of being like every other family on the street,” Roberts told the wsj. “I don’t question it, frankly.”

Unlike their neighbors, though (or, perhaps like them, Malibu provides a celebrity-friendly enclave), they also have a few other homes, including the 30-acre ranch near Taos, NM, where Roberts and Moder were married. on July 4, 2002, and where historically the actress loved to spend as much time as possible. But since kids go to school in Southern California, that’s where most of the magic happens: family meals, festive baking, mah-jongg with friends, knitting and embroidery, parties birthday parties, soccer games, surfing and skateboarding. place.

“There are some days where as soon as you’re done making breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it’s time to start lunch, and when you’re done, you’re making dinner and thinking there has to be a menu that we can order.” of,” Roberts told the UK Telegraph in 2009. “But then there are some days when it’s so creative and so much fun and my kids help me out and, as with any mom or wife, it just becomes part of your day. Some days it’s super-fun and some days it’s A homework”.

And as the children grew older and older, certain things didn’t change, apart from becoming even more important.