Music: {allcanada} Doc shows backstage of Celine's life

While waiting to return to the stage in Las Vegas, Celine Dion has been focusing on her job as mom to three boys, her favourite thing to do.

"I live the school months with my son," she said from her Jupiter Island home in Florida. "It's pool, ocean and babies."

And to be sure, show business doesn't affect how life goes on inside the home. You can see for yourself in "Celine: 3 Boys and a New Show," a new 90-minute documentary that premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on the OWN Canada TV network.

"Hi, it's Celine Dion. Sorry, I should have called you 10 minutes ago, is it still OK?" she asked into the phone with a disarming demeanour to begin our interview.

We begin talking about her return to normal life.

"We came back to Florida. Rene-Charles started school again. He's now in fourth grade, with homework, new friends. He is in a fairly advanced school. He wants to do well," Dion explained

The 10-year-old is very much part of Dion's documentary, and we pick up on some obvious character traits while watching. In one scene, he doesn't understand why his mom gives him a break from homework during their trip to Chicago. "That doesn't make sense," he tells her.

In another scene in which he's shooting a James Bond-inspired film for the Caesars Palace show, he tells his dad, who's trying to give him acting tips: "I'm the actor, you are the manager."

Dion, for her part, explains her decision to only perform 70 shows per year.

"It's our turn to grow in his world," she said of her son. "When I'm free, I go pick him up at school. I get up at 6 a.m. and I make him a bagel, then we leave for school. It's amazing to be able to do that, it makes me very proud.

"I want to be known in the industry for my talent, but I definitely want to be just as known as a good mother to my family. That gives me an incredible balance.

There are, however, a few exceptions, such as when she decided to sing in New York's Central Park with Andrea Bocelli a few weeks ago. She was already apprehensive about leaving when we spoke, even if it wasn't for another three days.

"I never liked leaving," she said. "It's ironic because I've left a lot in my life. Rene-Charles is like that too. He never wants me to tell him when we're leaving, until the last minute."

For the family of five to go anywhere, there are plenty of details to be ironed out. The twins, Nelson and Eddy, will turn one on Oct. 23. In one of the documentary scenes, we see Dion getting the luggage together — quite a project.

"The concept of hand-baggage no longer exists in my life," she explained to a helper. "I need everything, absolutely everything, OK?"

"It's all the way for me," she said. "I don't want to be stressed, and I don't travel lightly, that's for sure."

As for the documentary, Dion said: "This type of project creates a unique link between me and my fans. I don't need to tell them everything, they already know it. When I arrive on stage, I take up where I left off, and they have the impression to know me already."

Dion's next French-language album is slated for a 2012 release.

"For now we are listening to songs, and I don't know when it will be out. I don't mix things up, I'm taking care of my family. Anyway, I can record an album in a week.

Dion's performance with Bocelli, the New York Philharmonic, Tony Bennett, David Foster and others will be broadcast on PBS this fall and will be part of a DVD set for release in November.

In her new documentary, Celine: 3 Boys and a New Show, Celine Dion gives her fans VIP access to the backstage of her life.

We see feedings, nightly rehearsals, couture fittings while her body was still overcoming the effects of pregnancy, the doubt of not being ready in time, and the move to Las Vegas with her family of five. More than ever before, Dion openly shares her vulnerability.

In one scene, we see her during her first rehearsal in Florida. She hadn't sung for two years. Rene Angelil, in the shadows, cries tears of relief and admiration.

During an interview with QMI Agency, Dion still hadn't seen the documentary. "It's the life that I lead, I'm not sure I'm ready to see that," she said over the phone.

"I don't think it's new for us to be an open book, to share these emotions. We've always worked this way," she said. "That said, we don't do that with just anyone."

This marks the third time Dion has worked with Productions J on documentaries, following Celine Around the World, and Celine Dion: A New Day ... Live in Las Vegas. According to Julie Snyder, CEO of Productions J, the budget for this latest production was nearly $1 million.

"We are so at ease with the members of this team that we end up forgetting they are there." Snyder said. "I don't like being told what to do, you can't invent magic, you have to capture it. At the start of filming, you talk more carefully, you watch what you say, and that's normal. But after two weeks, the jokes start coming out."

Many of the scenes in the film were shot in the Dion family's home in Jupiter Island, Fla.

"I think that (fans) ask themselves: how does she do it?" Dion said. "Is she like us? Are they afraid? Nervous? What are rehearsals like?

"People know it, but they don't really know it."