For 11 months out of the year, Alexia Delarosa doesn’t actively separate herself from the “tradwife” community online. Typically, the viral homemaker shares an audience with her fellow stay-at-home social media stars, who also cook up elaborate recipes made from scratch, homeschool their children and dress up in puffy sleeves and floral skirts
Not all tradwives give their videos the same comic flair that’s hooked Delarosa’s 648,000 Instagram followers, but her playfulness makes her stand out; it doesn’t cast her out of the tradwife world.
In October, however, it’s a different story. Delarosa, 31, loves Halloween, and her content proves her passion all month long. She posts videos of her decorations: “Let’s haunt the chicken coop,” she captioned a video hanging witch hats from her flock’s wooden ceiling and stringing faux spider webs from the wired windows.
She also shares the themed foods she cooks and bakes throughout the season, like the “spooky Halloween breakfast” — crepes topped with a …