Katie Holmes has an upcoming interview in Parade Magazine in which she reveals that Tom’s children from his marriage with Nicole Kidman, Isabella and Connor, call her “mom.” She also said that she and Tom and both of their families will be celebrating Christmas in Telluride, Colorado, where they’ll ski and cook holiday favorites like pecan pie.

How will you and Tom celebrate?
KH: My whole family and Tom’s whole family will go up to Telluride [Colo.] again. We ski. We have big dinners and laugh. We love cooking. My mom’s stuffing is my favorite. I’m a huge fan of pie, especially pecan. I will probably cook some garlic mashed potatoes and maybe a cheesecake. We always make a lot of sugar cookies with decorating and sprinkles. Suri will be in the dough everywhere. Tom has shown me the greatness of extra chocolate chips. Tom’s really good in the kitchen. He makes great pasta carbonara and lemon pasta.

With all that, how do you both keep fit?
KH: We ski a lot. And we’ll get back to normal eating in January, like everyone else.

Did you have fun shooting “Mad Money”?
KH: It was a blast. We got our morning female talk in the trailer every day.

Does Tom get the way women talk together?
KH: My husband has three sisters. He was raised by a single mother and has two daughters–and he’s a great father and husband. His first two children are incredible, really smart and kind. They call me “Mom.” So Tom understands the female bond, and he loves it. He was so excited for me to do this movie. He loved hearing all the stories.

[From Parade Magazine as found on Huffington Post]

As for her life with Tom she still has some of that wide-eyed glassy wonder that characterized their early relationship, but she’s graduated from calling everything “amazing” to describing her life with other superlatives.

On how she copes with being married to one of the most high profile cult spokespeople in the planet, she said that all the adventure, high end shopping and jet setting keep her one step ahead of insanity. That and a healthy dose of denial:

Everyone asks, “What’s Katie really like now?” How would you answer that?
KH: With everything that’s happened, I still feel the same. I’m really happy being a mom, being a wife. I understand the curiosity. It’s a reality for me, another dimension of awareness. I appreciate the man that I’m with and my family and my work. I feel very lucky to be able to say that. I mean, what we do in a week is extraordinary.

Did you expect such a busy and public life?
KH: I am up for it. I love adventure. We do a lot of things that I couldn’t imagine doing when I was younger. And yet, at the same time, I always wanted to see the world. It is a big life, and it’s exciting. I learn from my husband, and I learn things about myself. I learn about things from my daughter. She teaches me a lot. Every day I do count my blessings.

[From Parade Magazine as found on Huffington Post]

Isn’t it odd the way Katie phrases things? Who says things like “every day I do count my blessings”? She sounds like a school teacher from the 1950s. It is nice that she appreciates her life and isn’t smug about all the opportunities she has.

She also told a cute story about how little Suri said “Good Morning Berlin” when she was in Germany with Tom. (The story about Suri getting fitted for a custom pair of baby Louboutin high end shoes that we reported a couple of weeks ago was unfortunately false. In Touch reported this week that they contacted the Louboutin company, who denied the report.)

You could say that Nicole Kidman might be hurt by the news that her two kids call their stepmom “mom,” but that seems common with blended families and she’s probably more hurt by the fact that she rarely gets to see her children. She lost those kids to Scientology years ago and seems resigned to her fate.

There was a lot of speculation that Katie Holmes was pregnant after she was seen out with what looked like an obvious lower belly baby bump, but in these latest pictures it’s hard to tell as she’s wearing a loose coat.

Tom and Katie are shown outside The Raffles L’Ermitage Hotel In Beverly Hills yesterday, after which they headed to the Celebrity Scientology Center. Thanks to Splash News for these pics.

Update: Thanks to commentor Kolby and an anonymous commentor for mentioning that the kids call Nicole by her first name according to a recent interview. That’s not exactly true, though. Nicole Kidman said that Connor and Isabella call her “Mum” not “Mummy” (I assume this is translated to British vernacular) and that they sometimes call her Nicole. This isn’t exactly the same thing as not calling her “mom” and reserving the title only for Katie:

“Golden Compass” star Nicole Kidman appeared on Great Britain’s GMTV to promote the film, in which she plans the evil Marisa Coulter. After saying she read the books to her kids, she had this exchange with the host:

Host: Did your kids sit there and think, hey mummy, Mrs. Coulter, that’s you?
Nicole: They don’t call me mummy.
Host: What do they call you?
Nicole: Mum. Or sometimes Nicole. I’m like, “Hey!”

[GMTV interview as published in The Huffington Post]