Sometimes Amy would notice the goats standing or sleeping on the trampolines.
"It had become a family tradition for us to look each time we drive by to see if the goats are up on the trampolines," she says.
"While we didn't see any goats bouncing and doing tricks, we always wondered what they might get up to when no one was looking."
Amy is a literacy support teacher at Te Awamutu Primary School who has always loved reading and writing.
She says she recently discovered a box of newspapers and books she "published" as a child.
"They are terrible," she says.
But she always had a dream of writing for children and being published, something she says is quite difficult to break into in New Zealand.
Amy got into writing with some seriousness when her son was born, and had her first book published in 2019 - There's a Hedgehog in My Pants.
She says getting a follow-up accepted wasn't easy, and she had to get used to rejection and learn to carry on.
Amy was rewarded this year, not once, but twice.
Goat on a Trampoline was wanted by two publishers, but she had already committed to Bateman Books. Luckily, the second publisher wanted to see more, and now Amy has Who Took The Toilet Paper coming out in time for Christmas.
She says despite the title, the book was written pre-Covid and is a humorous story of bears in the woods.
She is really grateful to her illustrators for bringing her stories to life for children, saying while she can write, she can't draw.
And with plenty more stories and ideas, Amy is hoping her dream of being a children's author continues.
