Help my Supermom cape makes me invisible

Lately I have been feeling very invisible.  Either with work or at home I feel like I am answering the same questions over and over again, and no one seems to remember ever remember my answers.  I have to ask the kids to do things a million times before they seem to hear me....and even then I don't think they really do.  Even yesterday at the pharmacy they thought I had left the store because they didn't see me.  It's been really discouraging, I told Chad that I bet I could stand out on the street naked and no one would notice. 
I was talking with my neighbor this morning about how down I felt about it.  She pointed out how with the kids, I am always around them and they are just used to me being there. She could relate how she knows how that feels with her own kids.  I realized how this is true with a lot of what I do.  I am always there. I have been working crazy hours since November, and have always been around to finish up a task.  While Chad does help a great deal around the house, I am the one who is around the kids more.  So much so that Matthew each morning says.
"I want Daddy and Daniel to be home"

We are always the ones at the family holiday, hearing about how everyone else who can't make it is missed.  I rarely leave the house, I actually don't like to go out much on my own anymore.  I don't want to further the feeling that I am not seen.  The more I thought about it, the more depressed I felt.
But then I realized what a beautiful day it was.  My workload had lightened a bit for the day.  I know the snow we have left will not stick around for long.  So I took the boys on a walk.

I enjoyed the brightness all around, I realized how little daylight I have seen in the past few months.  The boys particularly liked jumping in the puddles left behind by the melting snow.

And I realized, that it's really not all that bad.  Kids will be kid.  They are just not wired to appreciate the fixtures in life.  They want to explore, learn and experience just as much as they crave routine.  With work, I do just need to take more real breaks and enjoy what we are so fortunate to have.  Lately I have just been going through the motions throughout all of life.  Once I get  outside of the house I kind of choose to wilt into the background.  I do need to get out more, but I also need to get out of the habit of accepting dullness.
It can be hard to do, but the weather sure is helping.