We only have 2 kids, and we like it that way!

Why is everyone so worried about how many kids you are or are not going to have? I really can't fathom why anyone is interested to know (besides my family and close friends) or why they need to know whether we will or will not have more children.  Why do strangers and acquaintances NEED to know about your procreation plans.  It seems like every other conversation I have these days contains one of the two following scenarios:

Scenario 1: 
"How many kids do you have?  {me} I have 2, a boy and a girl.  Oh, you got a boy and a girl!  Now you are done!!!

Scenario 2:
How many kids do you have?   {me} I have 2, a boy and a girl.  How many more are you going to have?   {me} None.  Really none?   {me} Yes, really, we are done at two.  Oh that's too bad, you should really have 3.

As for scenario 1, I am tired of people acting like my only goal in having kids was to have one of each so that they would be a matched set, like salt and pepper shakers.  The notion that we were done having kids just because we have one of each sex is ridiculous.  We were done having children because taking care of 2 is hard, and I don't feel equipped to care for 3.  Regardless of whether we had 2 girls or 2 boys, we would be done having children because we just don't feel like we need any more!  Do we really need to explain it?  Still, I just politely say "exactly!" and walk away, because is it really worth explaining to the checker at Albertsons?

As for scenario 2, I end up feeling like I have to defend my decision to only have 2 children.  There is really nothing to defend.  It is our right and choice to have ONLY 2 children.  There is no rule that says we must have 3, yet people seem so disappointed and dismayed when we tell them that there are going to be no more Millers made in this house.  To get the point across that Patrick and I are serious about only having 2, we even tell people that he had a vasectomy.  The most common response:  "Oh don't worry, you can reverse those quite easily."  I'm telling you people {that was for you mom!} that no one in this house is getting anything reversed.  Why would Patrick have had his little guys worked on if he was just going to undo that mess later?

Patrick and I have discussed this topic from an emotional  and financial standpoint and have drawn the following conclusions:

• We can give a better life to 2 children than we can to 3
• No one will ever have to ride alone on a roller coaster (that was Patrick's idea)
• Everyone will have a vacation buddy (spa for the girls, man stuff for the boys)
• We can easily split the kids up for man-to-man coverage in care taking, homework, driving to sports, etc.
• We can start traveling that much sooner with them with no new baby in the picture
• We were so tired from raising newborn Liam at ages 33 and 36.  How tired would we be at 36 at 39?  Would we even survive that?
• As a person who suffers from Bipolar Depression Type 2 (not the super crazy kind, but the mood swing kind), I just don't think it would be beneficial to my mental health to attempt to wrangle 3 kids daily; 2 is just plain hard enough
• I am not interested in ever being pregnant again.  Ever.

And our main reason:  our family feels perfect the way it is.  We like it like this.  We are comfortable with our choices and wish you could be too.