Matronly

It's really too bad that having a "matronly figure" hasn't been used as a (fairly) complementary adjective for like seventy years, because I like it. It's hard to look in the mirror and not think "what IS all that around my middle/butt/thighs?!" And it doesn't help that clothes sizes tell me i'm "extra large" or "size 14" (how quickly the body can go up in size when we're counting by twos...), but the fact is, having babies radically changes your body and can keep it from ever being quite the same again, and that is frustrating and doesn't help your perhaps already distressed mind, but it isn't necessarily a bad thing to be a big girl. (Cue Bono singing "Big girls are best...") My upper arms are rather bespeckled with cellulite right now and do look pretty darn ugly to me when I actually take the time to look at them, but man, I have way more muscle too from hoisting toddlers and sixteen-pound babies than I ever imagined possible. And I don't think Jason minds me filling out my shirts extra. :p

So, please, can we bring back "matronly"? And rather than "skinny," its counterpart, the "girlish figure..." 

I'll keep my modern dishwasher and washing machine, though.