Owen My Nursing Three Year Old

So when are you going to wean him? How long do you plan to nurse him?

I started hearing questions like this when Owen was a tiny baby and far, far to young to wean. As Owen approached a year, the questions peaked because surely I would wean him soon (*they* supposed). He could walk and talk and was eating a variety of solid foods (though no grains yet), surely he would be done nursing soon.
I don't know if the people who asked those questions finally got the message that nursing was good for babies AND children and that I had no intention of weaning him because it provided excellent nutrition and antibodies as well as physical comfort and the World health organization recommended a MINIMUM weaning age of 2 years old. Or maybe they heard that the natural age for weaning human babies from the breast was between 2.5 and 7 years old. Or maybe they finally decided that I was just SO WEIRD that there wasn't any use in asking me once Owen passed the magic age after which he *should* have been weaned. Maybe we crossed into such uncharted territory, that they thought we would never return to any kind of normal existence - like going into outer space and coming back somehow *touched* by an alien encounter.
Whatever, the reason, I have only been asked a handful of times in the past two years when Owen will wean despite the fact that we continue to NIP (nurse in public) regularly.
I have been told that certain people are uncomfortable with me nursing Owen, but, you know what, there were people who were never comfortable with it, and there are people who are ignorant (and I mean that in the nicest possible way - simply that they don't know), and there are people who have hang-ups (see also people who were never comfortable). I can't control other people's issues, and I can't make health decisions for me and my child based on them either.
And so, we have nursed these three years and a day. Now Owen nurses much less frequently than at first, and he no longer nurses to sleep at night, but it is still an important part of my parenting him and good for both his health and mine.
Do I think I'll be writing a post a year from now about my tandem nursing 4 year old? Who knows? If I am nursing Owen at 4, you can bet big money that I will be shouting it from the roof tops because I think the fact that it is natural and healthy for children to nurse at that age needs to be normalized in our society. If he's done nursing by then, that's great too. Nursing can be both physically and emotionally exhausting, and when Owen weans, I know that he will be better prepared for life after full-term nursing.