Tabbed featured post widgets?
 

It would be better for users if I had various categories available in my blog area of the homepage. Are there any plugins available that allow for setting up say 4 or 5 groups of posts and then being able to tab through them in one space?

Install genesis tabs plugin http://www.studiopress.com/plugins/genesis-tabs

By default, it only allows you to choose one post per category (yeah I always wonder why they didn't allow you to choose number of posts to show)

Here's a tutorial how to "hack" the plugin to enable you to choose number of post to be shown on the widget http://bradpotter.com/add-a-post-cou...s-tabs-plugin/

Awesome, thank you very much! I will give this a shot it might be just what I need.