Scott said he can remember only one year when his entire family was not together for the holiday -- the year that daughter Allison Guillard didn't make it home from France, where she was going to school.
The Scotts will attend services at their hometown church, Naples Community Church, on Christmas Eve.
On Christmas morning, after the sweet treats, the Scotts will open gifts and then head into the kitchen, where the state's chief executive will transform into a sous chef.
The Scotts will have their traditional family meal of ham, green beans and Waldorf salad, a childhood favorite of Scott's.
"That's the one thing I make," Scott said. "Ann really likes to do everything so I say I'm going to make it but I generally cut things up or I assemble it. That's about it."
Scott shared his recipe for the side dish: one apple, one can of pineapple, two handfuls of small marshmallows, one-half cup of nuts, one cup of grapes, one cup of Cool Whip and one-half cup of celery.
They always top off the meal with a pumpkin pie "because I like pumpkin pie," he said.
But there was the one time when a friend tasked with providing the pie instead purchased a sweet potato look-alike.
"It wasn't the same. I don't like sweet potatoes," Scott said.
In his Capitol office on Wednesday, Scott, clearly excited about spending the holiday with his clan, quickly shifted an interview about his first year in office away from politics and policies.
"Let's talk about family," Scott said. "That's more fun."
He lit up when asked about his family's Christmas traditions.
After their midday meal with friends, the family plays board games, organized by daughter Jordan Kandah, who hunts down a new board game for her father every year, he said.
This year, they'll be playing a strategy game with a sultan theme, but their current favorite game is Wits and Wagers, where players make up answers to trivia questions such as "How much does the biggest cat on record weigh?" and bet on the responses.
"It's fun. What's fun is the answers some people come up withPeople say foolish things. So everybody laughs. It's hilarious," he said.
One of Scott's unfortunate family members once guessed "100 pounds" to the cat question. The answer was 32, Scott said.
"We still give them a hard time about that," he said.
After the games, the family -- with the exception of Guillard and son August -- will head to a swank movie theater in Naples to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, chosen by Kandah, who's in charge of the movie selections.
The Silverspot Cinema in Naples features chairs Scott likened to first-class airline seating.
"You can take in food. You can take in wine. You can take in coffee. They have mozzarella pizza. They have all this stuff," Scott said. "That's where I go."
And, the multi-millionaire pointed out, it's a relative bargain.
"It's $4 more," Scott said.
Gov. Scott’s Waldorf salad
1 apple, cored
1 can, pineapple
2 handfuls, small marshmallows
1/2 cup, walnuts
1/2 cup, celery
1 cup, grapes
1 cup, Cool Whip
Chop and mix ingredients.
