Julia Roberts is in full-promotional mode. She’s got Duplicity coming out in more than a month, and the role is being billed as the latest of Julia’s many “comeback” roles. She’s acting opposite her favorite actor, Clive Owen, and she’s been giving little interviews about him for several weeks (even though the film he’s promoting currently is The International, with Naomi Watts).

So it’s little surprise that Julia sat down and gave an interview to Allure magazine. What surprises me is that she talks in some detail about her family rather than her hot co-stars. Julia says about her children that they are “little time thieves” and reminds us all of just how great her life is: “I’m the luckiest girl in town, I really am.” Of course, Julia. People magazine has some more details about the Allure interview:

As a fulltime stay-at-home mom for the past year, Julia Roberts says life outside the Hollywood spotlight has been anything but uneventful – thanks to her kids with husband Danny Moder.

“I will never be bored again,”] the Oscar winner, 41, tells Allure for its March issue.

“Danny and I talk about, ‘What did we do with all the time we must have had?’ ” she says. “Because you don’t recognize it as such, until you have all these little … time thieves running around your house.”

Focused on raising her three children – twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 4, and another son, Henry, 20 months – Roberts has become creative in using home remedies when it comes to removing a splinter.

“We get a lot of splinters in our house,” says Roberts, whose new movie is Duplicity, with Clive Owen.

“A splinter is just a good light, a pair of tweezers and a lot of singing songs and passing the time: La-la-la, now listen, if you eat all of your dinner It’s distraction and extraction.”

The domesticated star admits her life at home is a juggling act, and while “it can lose its luster a little bit,” the key to her happy marriage and family is affection.

“The coolest thing you can do for your children is to love each other in their presence,” she says. “I’m the luckiest girl in town, I really am.”

From People Magazine

My deck is very old, and there are places where the wood is worn down and splitting, so in the summer I often get splinters too. My best remedy – when you first see that you have a splinter, wait and don‘t touch it. The worst thing is to try to take care of a splinter with your bare hands/nails. Get a pair of tweezers, sterilize them (a lighter will do), and very carefully and slowly remove the splinter. If you try to pull it out too fast, or if you’re not paying attention, part of the splinter could break off.

Julia seems like her normal self in the interview, but I do wonder if the whole “”it can lose its luster a little bit” comment was just some throw-away remark or if it was something that Julia’s really dealing with. One of the (few) things I’ve always admired about Julia is that when she wants to disappear and take a break from Hollywood, she does so successfully. But as the “comeback” roles accumulate and Julia makes more needless public appearances to promote nothing but herself, I tend to wonder if she’s just bored out of her mind out there in New Mexico with Danny Moder.

Julia Roberts and Danny Moder are shown in India visiting the Taj Mahal on 1/22/09. Credit: Splash News