Not looking forward to this weekend!!!!!!

Am I being selfish or are these feelings normal? It is only Wednesday ansd already I feel stressed at the thought that the skids are supposed to come over this weekend. Although I have a little hope, they were supposed to come over last weekend and they decided not to, Dh was a little disapointed but he got over it really quickly, and we enjoyed a great weekend with out chaos. But I am soo not looking forward to this weekend in fact I already have plans to do things with my children and DH but I would totally prefer not to do any of it with the skids, it may sound mean but these kids cause soo much chaos and pain in our home I think of things to do that will purposly make them not want to come, nothing bad I plan on taking the kids to the Zoo in fact I already have the tickets for them. The plan is to bore them into wanting to go back to their BM's house while we are close to her house and walk around with them and because of their lack of patience they will start fighting and complaining 1/2 way throught the zoo and DH will have had enough and take them back to BM's and we can still have family fun at the county fair on Sunday without haveing to deal with these brats!! I hope it works out as planned, and it probably will I know these brats soo well.

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My SD is mostly polite, well

My SD is mostly polite, well behaved, and causes very little deliberate trouble...and I still can't stand to have her here.

Normal? Definately. Selfish? Maybe. And ya know what? I don't care. We have EOWE visits and I start dreading her coming the weekend before she gets here.

I think to purposefully do

I think to purposefully do things that are not interesting for them is wrong. IMHO you should try to do things they enjoy or may remotely enjoy in order to create some kind of friendship / bond with them. Afterall, they are one half your SO! Though I think your feelings of not liking them are normal, feelings of being stressed out are normal, however to take them back to their bm because they are bratty or misbehaving is not right! My fdh would call his x and tell her he was taking them back. I asked him once why do you do that? Maybe they are behaving this way because they want to go back, or they know you will call their bm and threaten this "going back" thing. I said "stop doing it" when they behave badly deal with it, you are their father!!! There will be no more threatening to take them back or calling bm to tell her so in front of the kids. He stopped it and they kids started behaving better. They figured out he wasn't going to take them back so they better start making an effort at being kind to their father and others when they were around us. Now and again they try to use the I wanna go back to mommy and we just say she is out of town -- which these days with new bf she is out of town. They realize we are not allowing the bad behavior and rewarding them with a trip back to wherever they rather be.
I think you should rethink your stragey afterall -- the kids are not going away. The were there before you!

I really agree with this.

I really agree with this. Some level of dread is normal, the coming and going can really upset the balance of your home, but it's not right to try to deliberately exclude them in the hope they will disappear. Those children are important to your husband, and even if it doesn't look like it sometimes, he's very important to them, if you love him you have to do your best to support his relationship with them.